Amasa

Male

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Family

Parents: Jether Abigail

Named in 11 verses

2 Samuel 17:25 Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahas
2 Samuel 19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’”
2 Samuel 20:4 Then the king said to Amasa, “Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.”
2 Samuel 20:5 So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together, but he stayed longer than the set time which had been appointed to him.
2 Samuel 20:8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put on, and on it was a sash w
2 Samuel 20:9 Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
2 Samuel 20:10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him a
2 Samuel 20:12 Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the fi
1 Kings 2:5 “Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner and to Ama
1 Kings 2:32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David
1 Chronicles 2:17 Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.