4 others in the registry answer to the name Asaph. Every Asaph in the Bible
person
Asaph
אָסָף
Asaph served as the recorder during the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah (2Ki.18.18, 37; Isa.36.3, 22).
- verses
- 4
- first named
- 2 Kings 18:18
- last named
- Isaiah 36:22
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Asaph?
Asaph was an official who served as the recorder during the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah. When the Assyrian king Sennacherib invaded Judah and threatened Jerusalem, Hezekiah sent a delegation, including Asaph, to meet with the Assyrian officials. The Assyrian representative, the Rabshakeh, delivered a threatening message, urging the people of Jerusalem to surrender. Asaph, along with the other officials, tore their clothes in distress and reported the message to Hezekiah. As the recorder, Asaph likely had responsibilities related to official records and correspondence in the royal court.
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.
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Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Asaph 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.
4 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Kings (2) and Isaiah (2).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 2 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
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