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Asaph
Asaph was a Levite musician in the time of David and a leader of the singers who led praise in the temple. Psalm 50 and Psalms 73–83 have come down as "Psalms of Asaph," and his descendants continued the ministry of praise after the return from exile.
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- Joah (Recorder under Hezekiah)People
Joah, the son of Asaph, was the recorder under King Hezekiah of Judah. When the Assyrian army threatened Jerusalem, he went out with Eliakim and Shebna to meet the Rabshakeh.
- Psalm 75Bible
Psalm 75 is a psalm of Asaph, a song of thanksgiving and praise declaring that God judges with righteousness at the time He has appointed, bringing down the proud and exalting the righteous.
- Psalm 76Bible
Psalm 76 is a psalm of Asaph, a twelve-verse song praising God, who dwells in Zion, for breaking the armies of the enemy and arising to save the meek of the earth.
- Psalm 83Bible
Psalm 83 is a psalm of Asaph and a communal prayer. It asks God to judge the surrounding nations that have allied to destroy Israel, as He did in the days of the judges, and prays that they may come to know that the LORD alone is the Most High over all the earth.
- Psalm 80Bible
Psalm 80 is a psalm of Asaph and a communal lament. Comparing Israel to a vine brought out of Egypt and planted, it implores God, the "Shepherd of Israel," to restore His devastated people.
- Psalm 82Bible
Psalm 82 is a psalm of Asaph in which God stands in "the congregation of the mighty" and rebukes those who judge unjustly, commands justice for the poor and the fatherless, and pronounces the downfall of the unjust judges.
- Psalm 73Bible
Psalm 73 is a psalm of Asaph that opens Book III of the Psalter. The psalmist, shaken by the prosperity of the wicked, comes to understand their end in the sanctuary of God and confesses that it is good to draw near to God.
- Psalm 81Bible
Psalm 81 is a psalm of Asaph in sixteen verses. It opens with a call to praise God at the festivals, recalls the Exodus, and then, in God's own voice, rebukes Israel's disobedience and urges obedience.
- Mattaniah (Son of Micah)People
Mattaniah was a Levite descended from Asaph who lived in Jerusalem after the return from the Babylonian exile. He was the leader who began the thanksgiving in prayer (Nehemiah 11:17).
- Psalm 50Bible
Psalm 50 bears the superscription "A Psalm of Asaph." In it God, acting as judge, summons his people, rebukes merely formal sacrifice and hypocritical living, and calls for the sacrifice of thanksgiving and upright conduct.
- Psalm 78Bible
Psalm 78 is a didactic psalm (maschil) of Asaph that retraces Israel's history from the Exodus to the accession of David. It contrasts God's faithfulness with the people's repeated disobedience and urges that these things be passed on to the next generation.
- Psalm 77Bible
Psalm 77 is a lament and a psalm of Asaph. In a time of trouble, the psalmist asks whether God has cast him off, then takes heart again by remembering God's works of old, especially His leading of the people through the sea at the Exodus.
- Psalm 79Bible
Psalm 79 is a communal lament bearing the superscription "A Psalm of Asaph." It lays before God the devastation wrought when the nations trampled Jerusalem and the temple, and it asks for forgiveness of sins, deliverance, and judgment on the enemies.
- 1 Chronicles 25Bible
1 Chronicles 25 records how David appointed 288 singers for the temple from among the descendants of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun and divided them by lot into twenty-four divisions of twelve each.
- JeduthunPeople
Jeduthun was a Levite musician in the time of David who was responsible for praise in temple worship. With Asaph and Heman, he was one of three leaders who directed the singing and instrumental music.
- 1 Chronicles 6Bible
1 Chronicles 6 presents the genealogy of the tribe of Levi. It contains the line of the Aaronic high priests, the genealogies of Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, whom David appointed to lead the singing, and a list of the cities given to the descendants of Levi.
- UzziPeople
Uzzi was the overseer of the Levites living in Jerusalem after the return from exile. He was the son of Bani and belonged to the descendants of Asaph, the family responsible for singing in the temple (Nehemiah 11:22).
- Psalm 50:15Bible Verses
A verse in Psalm 50 in which God calls His covenant people to offer thanksgiving and to call upon Him rather than to bring merely formal sacrifices, and promises to deliver them when they call on Him in the day of trouble. It is widely cited as both a command to pray and a promise that prayer will be answered.
- Psalm 73:25–26Bible Verses
Psalm 73:25–26 is the passage in which the psalmist, after being shaken by the prosperity of the wicked, confesses that God alone is the one he desires in heaven and on earth and that God is his "portion for ever." Because it confesses God himself as the greatest blessing, it is often cited as a text of comfort and devotion.