4 others in the registry answer to the name Asaph. Every Asaph in the Bible
person
Asaph
אָסָף
Asaph was a Levite musician and psalmist during David's reign, and his descendants served as temple singers (1Ch.6.39; 15:17, 19; 16:5, 7, 37; 25:1, 2, 6, 9; 2Ch.5.12; 20:14; 29:13, 30; 35:15; Ezra 2:41; 3:10; Neh.7.44; 11:22; 12:35, 46; Psalms 50, 73-83).
- verses
- 33
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 6:39
- last named
- Psalms 83:1
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Asaph?
Asaph was a prominent Levite musician and psalmist during the reign of King David. He was appointed by David as one of the leaders of music in the tabernacle and later in the temple. Asaph, along with Heman and Ethan, was responsible for leading the musical worship and prophesying with lyres, harps, and cymbals. He also composed and collected psalms, with 12 psalms (50, 73-83) attributed to him in the Book of Psalms. Asaph's descendants continued to serve as temple singers and musicians for generations, as evidenced by their mention in the reigns of subsequent kings and in the post-exilic period. The "sons of Asaph" are often referred to as a distinct group of temple singers, highlighting the enduring legacy of Asaph's musical contributions to Israelite worship.
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.
The 10 best-attested of 19 are drawn. All 19 are listed below.
Ancestor of
Child of
Father of
- Asharelahregistry, no verse
- Josephregistry, no verse
- Nethaniahregistry, no verse
- ZaccurregistryNehemiah 12:35
- Berechiah1 Chronicles 6:39
Parent of
Stands in the same events as
- LORD7 events
- David6 events
- Obed-edom4 events
- Jeduthun4 events
- Heman4 events
- Harp3 events
- Lyre3 events
- Levi2 events
- Zechariah2 events
- Benaiah2 events
- Mattithiah2 events
- Jeiel2 events
and 35 more, ordered by how many events they share.
Places
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.
33 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Chronicles (10), 2 Chronicles (5), Ezra (2), Nehemiah (4) and Psalms (12).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 33, across 5 books. The name is written 38 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.
- 1 Chronicles 16Asaph led the musicians before the ark, sounded the cymbals, and received David’s song of thanksgiving.
- 1 Chronicles 25Asaph directed his sons and prophesied under the direction of the king.
- 2 Chronicles 5Asaph stood with the Levitical singers and played as the praise began.
- Psalms 50Asaph’s name stands over the psalm that summons the earth, questions the sacrifice, and exposes the wicked lips.
- Psalms 73Asaph envies the prosperous wicked, enters God’s sanctuary to discern their end, and makes the Lord his refuge.
- Psalms 74Asaph is named as the bearer of the maskil that asks why God has rejected His people and pleads for their cause.
- Psalms 75Asaph gives the song its voice of thanks, praise, and proclamation.
- Psalms 76Asaph is named in the heading of this psalm.
6 more chapters, from Psalms 77 to Psalms 83
- Psalms 77Asaph gives his name to a song that cries aloud through the night and remembers wonders of old.
- Psalms 78Asaph opens his instruction by recalling the wonders handed down by the fathers and insisting that they reach the children yet unborn.
- Psalms 79Asaph is named in the psalm’s opening attribution.
- Psalms 80Asaph gives the lament its voice, calling for the Shepherd of Israel to hear and restore.
- Psalms 82Asaph is named in the heading of the psalm.
- Psalms 83Asaph gives the psalm its voice, calling on God not to be silent before the gathered enemies.
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