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25 Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. (Now Amasa was son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite[a], who had gone to Abigal daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab’s mother.)

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  1. 2 Samuel 17:25 1 Chronicles 2:17 says Jether was an “Ishmaelite,” while 2 Samuel 17:25 states he was an “Israelite.” The “Ishmaelite” reading is preferred. 2 Samuel makes a point of his being grafted in to the Israelite community, thus the reference.