Dict: smith - ASAPH

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ASAPH - A>@ - (collector of the people). A Levite, son of Berechiah, one of the leaders of David’s choir. ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:39) Psalms:50 and 73-83 are attributed to him; and he was in after times celebrated as a seer as well as a musical composer. ( kjv@2Chronicles:29:30; kjv@Nehemiah:12:46) (B.C. 1050.) The father or ancestor of Joah, the chronicler to the kingdom of Judah in the reign of Hezekiah, ( kjv@2Kings:18:18 kjv@2Kings:18:37 kjv@Isaiah:36:3 kjv@Isaiah:36:22) probably the same as the preceding. The keeper of the royal forest or "paradise" of Artaxerxes, kjv@Nehemiah:2:8) a Jew, in high office at the court of Persia. (B.C. 536.) Ancestor of Mattaniah, the conductor of the temple-choir after the return from Babylon. ( kjv@1Chronicles:9:16; kjv@Nehemiah:11:17) Most probably the same as 1 and 2.

ASAPH, SONS OF - A>@ - (A school of poetry and musical composers founded by Asaph.)