אָסָאʼÂçâʼ

proper name, masculine: king of Judah, son of Abijam and father of Jehoshaphat (1 Kings 15:8; 1 Kings 15:9; 1 Kings 15:11; 1 Kings 15:1-200; 1 Chronicles 3:10)

Pronunciation: aw-saw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H609

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Where it appears

Appears 58 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Kings 15:8 When Abijam died, he was buried in the City of David. Then his son Asa became the next king.
  • 1 Kings 15:9 Asa began to rule over Judah in the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign in Israel.
  • 1 Kings 15:11 Asa did what was pleasing in the Lord’s sight, as his ancestor David had done.
  • 1 Kings 15:13 He even deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made an obscene Asherah pole. He cut down her obscene pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
  • 1 Kings 15:14 Although the pagan shrines were not removed, Asa’s heart remained completely faithful to the Lord throughout his life.
  • 1 Kings 15:16 There was constant war between King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).