Asahel
Male
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Family
- Parents
- Zeruiah
- Siblings
- AbishaiJoab
- Children
- Zebadiah
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Named in 14 verses
- 2 Samuel 2:18 The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
- 2 Samuel 2:19 Asahel pursued Abner. He didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner.
- 2 Samuel 2:20 Then Abner looked behind him and said, “Is that you, Asahel?” He answered, “It is.”
- 2 Samuel 2:21 Abner said to him, “Turn away to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor.” But Asahel would not turn away from follow
- 2 Samuel 2:22 Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I look Joab your brother in the face?”
- 2 Samuel 2:23 However, he refused to turn away. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down
- 2 Samuel 2:30 Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, nineteen men of David’s and Asahel were missing.
- 2 Samuel 2:32 They took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron.
- 2 Samuel 3:27 When Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died
- 2 Samuel 3:30 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
- 2 Samuel 23:24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
- 1 Chronicles 2:16 and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
- 1 Chronicles 11:26 The mighty men of the armies also include Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
- 1 Chronicles 27:7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him. In his division were twenty-four thousand.