Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.

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Bible References

Nahash

1 Chronicles 2:13
And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second and Shimma the third,

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2 Samuel 20:12
And Amasa had wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stopped, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field and cast a garment upon him because he saw that every one that came by him stopped.