Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Sa 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.
Phrase of Scripture   Correlating Passages TSK Help

Amasa   2Sa 19:13; 2Sa 20:4,9-12
Ithra   1Ch 2:16,17; Jether the Ishmaelite
Abigail   Heb. Abigal
Nahash   or, Jesse. 1Ch 2:13,16
Correlating Passages
Amasa
2Sa 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.
2Sa 20:4 Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.
2Sa 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.
2Sa 20:10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that [was] in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth [rib], and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2Sa 20:11 And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that [is] for David, [let him go] after Joab.
2Sa 20:12 And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
Ithra
1Ch 2:16 Whose sisters [were] Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
1Ch 2:17 And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa [was] Jether the Ishmeelite.
Nahash
1Ch 2:13 And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,
1Ch 2:16 Whose sisters [were] Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

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Scott, Thomas. "2 Samuel 17:25," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/2Sa/17/25.html>.

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