Armenia in comments -- Book: 2 Kings (2 Samuel) (t2Kings) Թագաւորութիւններ Բ
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t2Kings 17:25
And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab,.... Who was along with David: which Amasa was a man's son whose name was Ithra, an Israelite; he is called Jether the Ishmaelite, Ch1 2:17; either because he was an Ishmaelite by birth, and being proselyted to the Jewish religion, was called an Israelite; or rather he was an Israelite by birth, and having sojourned in the land of Ishmael some time, was called an Ishmaelite, as Uriah the Hittite, and others; and when Amasa is called a "man's son", it means a great man, as Kimchi observes: that went in to Abigail, the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother: so that Joab and Amasa, the generals of David and Absalom, were own cousins, sisters' children, and David uncle to them both; for Abigail and Zeruiah were David's sisters, Ch1 2:16; children of Jesse, whose name is here called Nahash, having two names, or this was his surname; though others think Nahash is the name of a woman, the wife of Jesse, and that these two sisters had two mothers, but one father; it seems by this expression, "went in to", as if Amasa was not begotten in the conjugal state, but was illegitimate. 2 Kings (2 Samuel) 17:26