Gen 30:12-13, Jos 19:24-31 | ESV | STEP | Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son .

c 1 Kgs. 18:19, 20, 42; 2 Kgs. 2:25; 4:25; Song 7:5; Isa. 33:9; Jer. 50:19

Genesis 30:12-13

12 Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. 13 And Leah said, “Happy am I! For women ^ahave called me happy.” So she called his name Asher. ^{▼▼ Asher sounds like the Hebrew for happy}

Joshua 19:24-31

The Inheritance for Asher

24 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the people of Asher according to their clans. 25 Their territory included Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph, 26 Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. On the west it touches ^cCarmel and Shihor-libnath, 27 then it turns eastward, it goes to Beth-dagon, and touches Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtahel northward to Beth-emek and Neiel. Then it continues in the north to ^dCabul, 28 Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, Kanah, as far as ^eSidon the Great. 29 Then the boundary turns to Ramah, reaching to the fortified city of Tyre. Then the boundary turns to Hosah, and it ends at the sea; Mahalab, ^{▼▼Compare Septuagint; Hebrew Mehebel} Achzib, 30 Ummah, Aphek and Rehob—twenty-two cities with their villages. 31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Asher according to their clans—these cities with their villages.