Ashtray (bible)
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Ascher (also Asser ; Hebrew אָשֵׁר ʾĀšēr ) is the name of one of the twelve sons of Jacob , the third patriarch of the Israelites in the Tanakh , the Hebrew Bible . Jacob's sons are considered to be the ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel . Asher is the eighth son of Jacob and the second of Silpah , the maid of his wife Leah ( Gen 35,26 EU ). In other tribal lists, Gad and Asser appear last in the order of the sons ( Gen 35,26 EU ; 1 Chr 1,1ff EU ). When the tribe of Jacob moves to Egypt, Aser has four sons, a daughter and two grandchildren ( Gen 46.17 EU ). Jacob and Moses promise Asher a fertile land in their blessing.
tribe
The strain Asher obtained after Canaan an area on the Mediterranean Coast, which includes among other Mount Carmel ( Jos 19.23 to 31 EU ). This tribe is possibly identical with the people of the Asar , who were defeated by Sethos I and are mentioned in the Anastasi I papyrus . After the Israelite division of the empire, the tribal area of Asser became part of the northern kingdom of Israel . In Ezekiel's prophecy, Asser is assigned his share of the promised land as the second tribe after Dan ( Ezekiel 28:27 EU ), after having only played a subordinate role in the course of Israel's history.
See also
literature
- Fritz Rienecker, Gerhard Maier: Lexicon for the Bible. SCM R.Brockhaus, 8th edition, Witten 2010, ISBN 978-3-417-24678-0 , pp. 144-145.