2 Samuel 17:25
"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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- 2 Samuel 19:13
"And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab."
Read in chapter → - 1 Chronicles 2:13
"And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,"
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 20:9
"And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him."
Read in chapter → - 1 Chronicles 2:16
"Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three."
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 2:32
"And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah."
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 2:5
"Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 20:4
"Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present."
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