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    One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Asa. Every Asa in the Bible

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    Asa

    אָסָאἈσά

    Asa was a king of Judah who reigned for 41 years, known for his religious reforms (1Kings 15; 2Chr 14-16).

    Illustration2 Chronicles 14Asa's army defeats Zerah's Cushite force, pursues it toward Gerar, and takes sheep and camels as spoil.
    verses
    53
    first named
    1 Kings 15:8
    last named
    Matthew 1:8
    period
    Divided Monarchy
    tribe
    Judah

    Description

    Who was Asa?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Asa was the third king of Judah, son of Abijah (or 'Abijam') and grandson of Rehoboam. He reigned for 41 years, from the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel. Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, removing idols, male cult prostitutes, and high places from Judah. He even deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa faced an invasion by Zerah the Ethiopian but defeated him with God's help after crying out to the Lord. In his later years, Asa sought help from Ben-Hadad king of Syria against Baasha king of Israel instead of relying on God and imprisoned the seer Hanani for rebuking him. Asa developed a severe foot disease but did not seek the Lord's help. He died and was succeeded by his son Jehoshaphat.

    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.

    How the graph connects Asa10 of 25 entities the graph connects to Asa, in 2 groups: kinship 3, events 7. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.DavidChild of · 964 versesJehoshaphatFather of · 4 events · 67 versesAbijahChild of · 3 events · 20 versesKinshipIsrael2 events · 2,578 versesJudah9 events · 1,023 versesJerusalem3 events · 888 versesBenjamin2 events · 166 versesWar2 events · 75 versesMizpah2 events · 50 versesBaasha4 events · 26 versesEventsAsa

    The 10 best-attested of 25 are drawn. All 25 are listed below.

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    Stands in the same events as

    and 18 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Asa happensAll 8 places the claims about Asa reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Mareshah, Jerusalem, Gerar, Zephathah_Valley, Geba, Kidron, Mizpah, Tirzah. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Asa there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.MareshahJerusalemGerarZephathah_ValleyGebaKidronMizpahTirzah
    Divided MonarchyAll 8 places the claims about Asa reach

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 53, across 5 books. The name is written 59 times in them.

    1. 1 Kings24 verses

      15:815:915:1115:1315:1415:1615:1715:1815:2015:2215:2315:2415:2515:2815:3215:3316:816:1016:1516:2316:2922:4122:4322:46

    2. 1 Chronicles1 verse

      3:10

    3. 2 Chronicles25 verses

      14:114:214:814:1014:1114:1214:1315:215:815:1015:1615:1715:1916:116:216:416:616:716:1016:1116:1216:1317:220:3221:12

    4. Jeremiah1 verse

      41:9

    5. Matthew2 verses

      1:71:8

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Asa’s assembly and Asa and People Of Judah’s building of Cities Of Judah, and 5 moreJudahIsraelite tribe, kingdom, and provincevia Asa’s assembly and Asa’s reign, and 1 moreJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsvia Asa’s sending of Asa Servants and Asa’s sendingBen-hadadKing of Aram, contemporary of Asa and Baasha.via Asa’s sending of Asa Servants and Asa’s sendingSendingSending is a concept gathering 488 labelled instances in the text.via Asa’s reign and Jehoshaphat’s reign of AsaReignReign is a concept gathering 158 labelled instances in the text.via Jehoshaphat’s reign of Asa and JehoshaphatSending of Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and MicaiahSending of Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah is an event attested across 2 verses, connecting 17 pageable entities.via Abijah and MaacahAttaiSon of King Rehoboam and Maacahvia Abijah and MaacahRehoboamSon of Solomon, first king of Judahvia Abijah and MaacahShelomithDaughter of Rehoboam with Absolom's daughter

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

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