And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? Elohim do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Yoav.
And Avshalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Yoav: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Yisraelite, that went in to Avigayil the daughter of Nahash, sister to TZruyah Yoav's mother.
And he bowed the heart of all the men of Yhudah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.