Neh 11:17 And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
Neh 11:22 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God.
Neh 11:23 For it was the king’s commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.
Psa 50:1 A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
Psa 73:1 A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
Asaph
A’saph. (collector of the people).
1. A Levite, son of Berechiah, one of the leaders of David’s choir. 1Ch 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. 2Ch 29:30; Neh 12:46. (B.C. 1050).
2. The father or ancestor of Joah, the chronicler to the kingdom of Judah in the reign of Hezekiah, 2Ki 18:18; 2Ki 18:37; Isa 36:3; Isa 36:22, probably the same as Asaph, 1.
3. The keeper of the royal forest or “paradise” of Artaxerxes, Neh 2:8, a Jew, in high office at the court of Persia. (B.C. 536).
4. Ancestor of Mattaniah, the conductor of the Temple-choir after the return from Babylon. 1Ch 9:16; Neh 11:17. Most probably the same as Asaph, 1 and 2.
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