Aser
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Assuriete — genoem onder diegene oor wie Isboset koning gemaak is [2Sam 2:9 ]. Hul gebied word bereken tussen Gilead en Jisreël.
[hebr. Assur], is die oudste hoofstad van Assirië aan die regteroewer van die Tigris [Gn 2:14]. Na hierdie stad is die gelyknamige staat en sy inwoners vernoem, volgens [Gn 10:22] afstammelinge van Sem [Eseg 27:23 ]. Ouer Assiriese heersers het in Assur gewoon tot by Salmanassar I. [omstreeks 1280 v.C.], wat Nineve die hoofstad gemaak het. Dit was nie groot nie, maar goed versterk en natuurlik beskerm. In die noordelike deel van die stad het die paleise van konings en tempels van gode gestaan, onder wie die belangrikste Assur [Assur] was. Dit was gebruiklik om die dooies tuis te begrawe. Vandag bly slegs ruïnes van hierdie stad oor. *Assirië.
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Asher
happy, Jacob's eigth son; his mother was Zilpah, Leah's handmaid (Gen 30:13 ). Of the tribe founded by him nothing is recorded beyond its holding a place in the list of the tribes (Gen 35:26 ; 46:17; Ex 1:4), etc. It increased in numbers twenty-nine percent, during the thirty-eight years' wanderings. The place of this tribe during the march through the desert was between Dan and Naphtali (Num 2:27 ). The boundaries of the inheritance given to it, which contained some of the richest soil in Palestine, and the names of its towns, are recorded in (Josh 19:24-31; Judg 1:31; 1:32). Asher and Simeon were the only tribes west of the Jordan which furnished no hero or judge for the nation. Anna the prophetess was of this tribe (Luke 2:36).
EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary