place
Ashan
עָשָׁן
- verses
- 4
- first named
- Joshua 15:42
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 4:32
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.28°N · 34.80°E
Khirbet Asan (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 4 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Ashan in the text
Ashan was a city located in the Shephelah, or the lowlands, of Judah. It is mentioned in the Bible as part of the territorial allotments given to the tribes of Judah and Simeon after the conquest of Canaan.
In Joshua 15:42, Ashan is listed among the cities in the Shephelah region that were allocated to Judah. However, in Joshua 19:7 and 1Ch.4.32, Ashan is included in the list of cities given to the tribe of Simeon within Judah's inheritance.
Later, in 1Ch.6.59, Ashan is mentioned as one of the cities given to the Levites, specifically to the descendants of Aaron, along with its pasturelands. This suggests that Ashan was designated as a Levitical city, where the priests and Levites resided and served in their sacred duties.
The exact location of Ashan is uncertain, but it is generally believed to be situated in the northwestern part of the Judean Shephelah, possibly near the city of Libnah. Some scholars propose identifying Ashan with the modern site of Khirbet Hasan, approximately 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Lachish.
The biblical references to Ashan highlight its inclusion in the territorial distribution of the Promised Land among the tribes of Israel. Its assignment to both Judah and Simeon and its subsequent designation as a Levitical city underscore the complex process of land allocation and the provision for the Levites within the inherited territories.
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.
Stands in the same events as
- David1 event
- Village1 event
- Settlement1 event
- Beersheba1 event
- Ain1 event
- Baalath-beer1 event
- Hazar-shual1 event
- Moladah1 event
- Madmannah1 event
- Rimmon1 event
- Sharuhen1 event
- Etam1 event
and 3 more, ordered by how many events they share.
The pattern
Where Ashan 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 Joshua (2) and 1 Chronicles (2).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 2 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Sources