People of the Bible

Asa

– 913 BC · Genealogy of Jesus · Tribe of Judah

Family

Born: Jerusalem
Died: Jerusalem

In the story

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Reign of Asa · 954 BC
Death of Asa · 913 BC

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Physician, son of Abijah and grandson of Rehoboam, was the third king of Judah. He was zealous in maintaining the true worship of God, and in rooting all idolatry, with its accompanying immoralities, out of the land (1 Kings 15:8-14). The Lord gave him and his land rest and prosperity. It is recorded of him, however, that in his old age, when afflicted, he “sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians” (comp. Jer. 17:5). He died in the forty-first year of his reign, greatly honoured by his people (2 Chr. 16:1-13), and was succeeded by his son Jehoshaphat.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 53 verses

1 Kings: 15:8, 15:9, 15:11, 15:13, 15:14, 15:16, 15:17, 15:18, 15:20, 15:22, 15:23, 15:24, 15:25, 15:28, 15:32, 15:33, 16:8, 16:10, 16:15, 16:23, 16:29, 22:41, 22:43, 22:46
1 Chronicles: 3:10
2 Chronicles: 14:1, 14:2, 14:8, 14:10, 14:11, 14:12, 14:13, 15:2, 15:8, 15:10, 15:16, 15:17, 15:19, 16:1, 16:2, 16:4, 16:6, 16:7, 16:10, 16:11, 16:12, 16:13, 17:2, 20:32, 21:12
Jeremiah: 41:9
Matthew: 1:7, 1:8

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.