Crossword-Solution: ASAHEL 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Samson possessed his strength, Saul his neck, Absalom his hair, Asahel his fleetness of foot, Uzziah his forehead, Josiah his nostrils, Zedekiah his eyes, and Zerubbabel his voice.

Samson's extraordinary strength caused his death; Saul killed himself by cutting his neck with his own sword; while speeding swiftly, Asahel was pierced by Abner's spear; Absalom was caught up by his hair in an oak, and thus suspended met his death; Uzziah was smitten with leprosy upon his forehead; the darts that killed Josiah entered through his nostrils, and Zedekiah's eyes were blinded.[23] The generality of men inherited as little of the beauty as of the portentous size of their first father.

Asahel, the supernaturally swift runner, (87) so swift that he ran through a field without snapping the ears of wheat (88) had been the attacking party.

The king questioned him: "Why didst thou kill Abner?" Joab: "I was the avenger of my brother Asahel, whom Abner had slain." Solomon: "Why, it was Asahel who sought to kill Abner, and Abner acted in self-defense." Joab: "Abner might have disabled Asahel without going to extremes." Solomon: "That Abner could not do." Joab: "What! Abner aimed directly at Asahel's fifth rib, and thou wouldst say he could not have managed to wound him lightly?" Solomon: "Very well, then, we shall drop Abner's case.

Nevertheless, by night the Philistine had caught me up again, the evil angels helping him; and my soul was mad within me.’ ‘And what then, Jonadab Bar-Zebudah?’ ‘I bethought me of Ehud, and of Joab also, when he was pursued by Asahel, and considered much of the lawfulness of the deed, not being a man of blood.