²⁵ Absalom put ^(A)Amasa ^[a]in command of the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was ^[b]Ithra the Israelite, who ^[c]had relations with Abigail the daughter of ^(B)Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

¹³ And say to ^(A)Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? ^(B)May God do so to me, and more so, if you will not be ^(C)commander of the army ^[a]for me continually, ^(D)in place of Joab.’”