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2 Samuel 20:4
Then the king said to Amasa, Get all the men of Judah together, and in three days be here yourself.

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2 Samuel 20:5
So Amasa went to get all the men of Judah together, but he took longer than the time David had given him.

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2 Samuel 19:13
And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God's punishment be on me, if I do not make you chief of the army before me at all times in place of Joab!

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2 Samuel 17:25
And Absalom put Amasa at the head of the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had been the lover of Abigail, the daughter of Jesse, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.

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1 Chronicles 2:17
And Abigail was the mother of Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

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2 Samuel 16:8
The Lord has sent punishment on you for all the blood of the family of Saul, whose kingdom you have taken; and the Lord has given the kingdom to Absalom, your son: now you yourself are taken in your evil, because you are a man of blood.

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2 Samuel 19:14
And the hearts of the men of Judah were moved like one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, Come back, with all your servants.

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1 Kings 2:5
Now you have knowledge of what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me, and to the two captains of the army of Israel, Abner, the son of Ner, and Amasa, the son of Jether, whom he put to death, taking payment for the blood of war in time of peace, and making the band of my clothing and the shoes on my feet red with the blood of one put to death without cause.

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