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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 Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.
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Verse 25. Jazrael, or Israel. D.—Gortius would read Ismael, as 1 Chronicles 2:17, Jether, the Ismaelite. Bible.—Went in. This expressing makes Sanchez believe that Amasa was illegitimate. Menochius.—Naas is either the name of Isai’s wife, or rather the latter had both names. 1 Chronicles 2:13, 16. Septuagint read Jesse, in the edition of Complut.; in others, Naas. Calmet.—Joab; so that these two were own cousins, and both nephews of David.
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