Asaph in Biblical History

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Who is Asaph?
A'SAPH
(collector). 1. A Levite who was a chief leader of the temple choir and a poet. 1 Chr 6:39. Twelve of the Psalms are attributed to him -- namely, Ps 50 and from Ps 73-83. He is also spoken of as a "seer" in connection with David. 2 Chr 29:30; Neh 12:46. "The sons of Asaph" were probably a school of musicians. 1. The father of Joah, recorder to Hezekiah. 2 Kgs 18:18, 2 Kgs 18:37; Isa 36:3,Josh 11:22. 2. The keeper of the king's forest to Artaxerxes. Neh 2:8. 3. A Levite, an ancestor of Mattaniah. Neh 11:17. Perhaps the same as 1. ASAR'EEL (whom God has bound; i.e. by an oath), a descendant of Judah. 1 Chr 4:16.

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