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

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

27. And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

28. Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched, and beans, and lentiles, and parched,

29. And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that with him, to eat: for they said, The people hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.