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And the sons of Elkanah ; Amasai , and Ahimoth .

The son of Zuph , the son of Elkanah , the son of Mahath , the son of Amasai ,

And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat , and Nethaneel, and Amasai , and Zechariah , and Benaiah, and Eliezer , the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed –edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.

Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai , and Joel the son of Azariah , of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari , Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah , and Eden the son of Joah :

Then the spirit came upon Amasai , who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David , and on thy side, thou son of Jesse : peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.

Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin : and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

But howsoever, said he, let me run. And he said unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.

Absalom and the Israelites made their camp in the land of Gilead . Absalom had made Amasa the new captain of the army. He took Joab’s place. Amasa was the son of Ithra the Ishmaelite. His mother was Abigail , the daughter of Nahash, the sister of Joab’s mother, Zeruiah .

And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer ,

So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah : but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan , that are in the mountain of Samaria , which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom .

(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan .

Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah , first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel ?

Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem . And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem .

Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir , and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.

And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.

And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.

And Saul 's uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no where, we came to Samuel .

And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.