4
Then the king said to
aAmasa, "Call out the men of Judah for me within three days, and be present here yourself."
a
2 Samuel 17:25, 2 Samuel 19:13
2 Samuel 17
25
Absalom set aAmasa over the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of bNahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
2 Samuel 19
13
"Say to aAmasa, 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? bMay God do so to me, and more also, if you will not be ccommander of the army before me continually din place of Joab.'"