24. Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
25. And Absalom set Amasa over the host instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Israelite, that went in to Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
26. And Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.