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24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

25 Absalom made Amasa captain of the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of an [Ishmaelite] named Ithra, who married Abigail daughter of Nahash, [half sister of David and] sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

26 So Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

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