Where is asher in the bible

Serve the Lord your God, so that his fierce anger will turn away from you. If you return to the Lord, then your fellow Israelites and your children will be shown compassion by their captors and will return to this land, for the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him.

The couriers went from town to town in Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun, but people scorned and ridiculed them. Nevertheless, some from Asher, Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and went to Jerusalem. Also in Judah the hand of God was on the people to give them unity of mind to carry out what the king and his officials had ordered, following the word of the Lord. In the end, we find that Asher received many great blessings from God. In this they sometimes succeeded and sometimes failed.

We, too, have been blessed by God Ephesians , and the Lord expects us to obey His commands John Praise the Lord for His wonderful plans for us. What a comfort! The boundaries of the territory are given in considerable detail in Joshua Only a few of the places named can be identified with certainty.

Dor, the modern Tan-Turah, although occupied by Manasseh belonged to Asher. The lot of Asher formed a strip of land from 8 to 10 miles wide running northward along the shore to the neighborhood of Sidon, touching Issachar, Zebulun and Naphtali on the East Asher seems to have taken possession of the territory by a process of peaceful penetration, not by conquest, and as we have seen, he never drove out the Phoenicians from their cities.

The rich plain of Acre, and the fertile fiats between the mountain and the sea near Tyre and Sidon therefore remained in Phoenician hands. But the valleys breaking down westward and opening on the plains have always yielded fine crops of grain. Remains of an ancient oak forest still stand to the North of Carmel. The vine, the fig, the lemon and the orange flourish.

The fifth lot came out for the tribe of Asher according to its clans. Their territory included:. On the west the boundary touched Carmel and Shihor Libnath. He was content to dwell among them. The command was to utterly drive them out and make no terms with them. The people were conspicuous by their absence during the war with Sisera Judg. Apart from Anna, none of the tribe appear to have been eminent for prowess or piety.

Prosperity resulted in ease and declension. Asher and the promise of endurance. Completing the blessing of Moses was a wonderful promise of endurance for the days of pilgrimage. Many guesses have been made as to the true meaning of these words. This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.

And [then] the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising. And the children of Gershon [had] by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:. Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships?

Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches. Ezekiel The territory of Manasseh reached the Mediterranean Sea and bordered Asher on the north and Issachar on the east. It touched Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west and the Jordan on the east. Sandra Hamer Smith. Emma Danzey. How Long Should a Pastor Preach? Clarence L. Haynes Jr. Britt Mooney. Jason Soroski.