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Jacob’s Twelve Sons — Asher
He was the eighth son of Jacob by Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid and his name means happy.“And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher” (Genesis 30:13).
When Moses blessed the tribes before he died, he said, “Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be” (Deuteronomy 33:24-25). There is a very real and practical lesson for us to learn from this portion. Children would speak of bearing fruit for God, and being acceptable to our brethren would remind us of the need to go on in fellowship with those who love and seek to please the Lord. The foot dipped in oil would speak of a walk in the power of the Spirit. As a result of such a walk there will be power and endurance in our life and testimony, of which the shoes of iron and brass are a figure.
In Luke 2:36-38, we have a prophetess named Anna, “the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher.” She was a woman of faith and one of the few who was truly waiting for the Messiah.
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