Thematic Bible: The tribe of Asher


Thematic Bible



Out of Asher, his bread shall be fat, And he will give royal dainties. Verse ConceptsRich Foodroyalty

And of Asher he said, Asher shall be blessed with sons; Let him be acceptable to his brethren, And let him dip his foot in oil. Iron and brass shall be thy bolts; And thy rest as thy days.

The sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Jishvah, and Jishvi, and Beriah; Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzavith. And Heber begot Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister. read more.
And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath; these are the sons of Japhlet. And the sons of Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah, and Hubbah, and Aram. And the sons of his brother Helem: Zophah, and Jimna, and Shelesh, and Amal. The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Jimrah, Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Jithran, and Beera. And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara. And the sons of Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and Rizia. All these were the sons of Asher, heads of fathers' houses, choice men, mighty of valour, chiefs of the princes. And their number according to their genealogy, registered as fit for service for war, was twenty-six thousand men.

And there was a prophetess, Anna, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, who was far advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from her virginity, Verse ConceptsProphetessSeven YearsAgeWaiting Till Marriagemumsmarraigematrimonyvirginity

The standard of the camp of Dan shall be northward according to their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai; Verse ConceptsTribes Of IsraelFlags

And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher; and the prince of the sons of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran;

and the border turned to Ramah, and as far as the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and ended at the sea by the tract of country of Achzib;

Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he abide with the ships? Asher sat still at the coast of the sea, settling down by his landings. Verse ConceptsSeafaringShipsSeashoresBeyond JordanReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

And he sent messengers throughout all Manas'seh; and they too were called out to follow him. And he sent messengers to Asher, Zeb'ulun, and Naph'tali; and they went up to meet them. Verse ConceptsMessenger

And the men of Israel were called out from Naph'tali and from Asher and from all Manas'seh, and they pursued after Mid'ian.

Nevertheless certain of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsHumilityReligious Awakenings

And of Asher such as went forth in the host, to set themselves in battle array, forty thousand. Verse ConceptsForty Thousand And Up

And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, the rear-guard of all the camps according to their hosts, and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai; and over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran;

And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore Jacob a second son. And Leah said, Happy am I; for the daughters will call me blessed! and she called his name Asher.

The sons of Asher, after their families: of Jimnah, the family of the Jimnites; of Jishvi, the family of the Jishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Beriites. Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites. And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. read more.
These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred.

On the eleventh day, the prince of the children of Asher, Pagiel the son of Ocran. His offering was one silver dish of the weight of a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for an oblation; one cup of ten shekels of gold, full of incense; read more.
one young bullock, one ram, one yearling lamb, for a burnt-offering; one buck of the goats for a sin-offering; and for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five yearling lambs. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.

Of the sons of Asher: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers' houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.

And the fifth lot came forth for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families. And their territory was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Acshaph, and Allammelech, and Amead, and Mishal; and the border reached to Carmel westwards, and to Shihor-libnath, read more.
and turned towards the sun-rising to Beth-Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah-el northward to Beth-emek and Neiel, and went out to Cabul on the left, and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, as far as great Zidon; and the border turned to Ramah, and as far as the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and ended at the sea by the tract of country of Achzib; and Ummah, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities and their hamlets. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities and their hamlets.

Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon, or of Ahlab, or of Achzib, or of Helbah, or of Aphik, or of Rehob; but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.

for the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;

and for the tribe of the children of Asher, a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi;

These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred. Verse ConceptsFifty To Ninety Thousand

for Asher, Pagiel the son of Ocran;

Baanah the son of Hushai, in Asher and in Aloth.

Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he abide with the ships? Asher sat still at the coast of the sea, settling down by his landings. Verse ConceptsSeafaringShipsSeashoresBeyond JordanReuben Gad And Half Manasseh