Son of Berechiah of the Gershonite family appointed by David over the service of song and by Solomon in the Temple services (1 Chron. 6:39; 15:17, 19). David called this Asaph “the seer” (2 Chron. 29:30).
A Levite, whose posterity lived in Jersusalem after the exile (1 Chron. 9:15).
A descendant of Kohath, son of Levi, whose descendants were tabernacle porters in David’s time (1 Chron. 26:1).
The keeper of the king’s park in Palestine under the king of Persia (Neh. 2:8).