Asher (I)

I. ASHER, the Son of Jacob and ZilpahGen. xxx. 13., his Wife Leah’s Servant. We know nothing particularly of his life or death; for we make no account of what is said in the Testament of the twelve Patriarchs, where we find a long discourse concerning Asher, and a prediction of the captivity of his Tribe, its deliverance by Jesus Christ, and of the burial of this Patriarch at Hebron. Asher had four Sons and one Daughter. The inheritance belonging to his Children Ch. xlix. 20. Deut. xxxiii. 24.lay in a very fruitful Country, with Phœnicia to the West of it, Mount Libanus to the North, Mount Carmel and the Tribe of Issachar to the South, and the Tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali to the East. The Tribe of Asher never possessed the whole extent of ground which was assigned to it; its allotment was to reach to Libanus, part of Syria, and Phœnicia, but either its weakness, its negligence, or its Sins, or all these reasons put together, were the cause that it could never get possession of its whole portion.

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