What Does the Bible Say About Asaph?

Psalm 73:1-28 ESV / 12 helpful votes

A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped. For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek. They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind. ...

Ezra 2:41 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The singers: the sons of Asaph, 128.

2 Chronicles 35:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the gatekeepers were at each gate. They did not need to depart from their service, for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.

1 Chronicles 6:39 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, namely, Asaph the son of Berechiah, son of Shimea,

Psalm 74:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A Maskil of Asaph. O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt. Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary! Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs. They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees. ...

Psalm 50:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest. He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people: “Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!” ...

2 Chronicles 29:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Hezekiah the king and the officials commanded the Levites to sing praises to the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down and worshiped.

1 Chronicles 16:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Asaph was the chief, and second to him were Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, who were to play harps and lyres; Asaph was to sound the cymbals,

Psalm 83:1-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God! For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads. They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones. They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!” For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant— ...

Psalm 82:1-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A Psalm of Asaph. God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. ...

Psalm 81:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob! Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp. Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob. He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known: ...

Psalm 79:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins. They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the heavens for food, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth. They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them. We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us. How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? ...

Psalm 78:1-72 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth! I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old, things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, ...

Psalm 77:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, and he will hear me. In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted. When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I consider the days of old, the years long ago. ...

Nehemiah 12:46 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For long ago in the days of David and Asaph there were directors of the singers, and there were songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

Ezra 3:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord, according to the directions of David king of Israel.

1 Chronicles 25:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The list of those who did the work and of their duties was: Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah, sons of Asaph, under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied under the direction of the king.

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Revelation 3:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.

James 5:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Colossians 1:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Philippians 2:5-8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Romans 5:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Acts 13:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

Acts 5:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,

John 14:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

John 10:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

34 Bible Verses about Asaph

Psalm 73:1-28 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Ezra 2:41 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Chronicles 35:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 6:39 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Psalm 74:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 50:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Chronicles 29:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 16:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 83:1-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 82:1-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 81:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 79:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 78:1-72 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 77:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Nehemiah 12:46 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ezra 3:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 25:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 3:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James 5:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Colossians 1:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Philippians 2:5-8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 5:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 13:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 5:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 14:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 10:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 3:16-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Asaph

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Ezra 2:41 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 73:1-28 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Ezra 2:41 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Chronicles 35:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 6:39 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Psalm 74:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 50:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Chronicles 29:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 16:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 83:1-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 82:1-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 81:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 79:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 78:1-72 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 77:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Nehemiah 12:46 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ezra 3:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 25:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 3:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James 5:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Colossians 1:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Philippians 2:5-8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 5:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 13:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 5:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 14:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 10:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 3:16-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote