3 others in the registry answer to the name Asahel. Every Asahel in the Bible
- verses
- 14
- first named
- 2 Samuel 2:18
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 27:7
- period
- United Monarchy
- tribe
- Judah
Description
Who was Asahel?
Asahel was the youngest son of Zeruiah, David's sister, and the brother of Joab and Abishai. He was known for his speed and agility, being described as fleet-footed as a wild gazelle. During the battle between the forces of David and Ish-Bosheth at Gibeon, Asahel pursued Abner, the commander of Ish-Bosheth's army. Despite Abner's warnings to turn aside, Asahel refused, and Abner killed him with the butt of his spear. Joab and Abishai later avenged their brother's death by murdering Abner when he came to support David. Asahel was one of David's mighty men and was placed in charge of a division in David's army.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Child of
- husband of Zeruiahregistry, no verse
- Zeruiahregistry2 Samuel 2:181 Chronicles 2:16
Father of
- Zebadiahregistry1 Chronicles 27:7
Sibling of
- Abishairegistry2 Samuel 3:30
- Joabregistry2 Samuel 3:272 Samuel 3:302 Samuel 23:24 +3
Stands in the same events as
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Asahel is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
14 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Samuel (11) and 1 Chronicles (3).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 14, across 2 books. The name is written 15 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources