Asaph: Convener, or collector.1. A Levite; one of the leaders of David's choir
(1 Chronicles 6:39) Psalms
50 and 73-83 inclusive are attributed to him. He is mentioned
along with David as skilled in music, and a "seer"
(2 Chronicles 29:30)
The "sons of Asaph," mentioned in
(1 Chronicles 25:1; 2 Chronicles 20:14) and
(Ezra 2:41) were his descendants, or more probably a class of
poets or singers who recognized him as their master.
2. The "recorder" in the time of Hezekiah
(2 Kings 18:18,37)
3. The "keeper of the king's forest," to whom Nehemiah requested
from Artaxerxes a "letter" that he might give him timber for the
temple at Jerusalem
(Nehemiah 2:8)
