Bible Person
Meaning: who gathers together · Male · 3 cross references
This Asaph entry refers to Asaph the father of Joah in Hezekiah's administration, not the famous psalmist Asaph. He belongs to the household memory of royal service during the Assyrian crisis. First appears in 2 Kgs 18:18.1
AI summary: This Asaph matters because the cross references preserve him through Joah, a key official in Hezekiah's tense encounter with Assyria. The patronymic anchors that official service in a remembered family line. Taken together, the material presents this Asaph as the paternal figure behind an important royal official in Judah's crisis.1
Central Figure
Asaph
Meaning: who gathers together
The “recorder” in the time of Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:18, 37).
The “recorder” in the time of Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:18, 37). 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.