Issachar
Gender: Male
Years: -1752 - 96
Dictionary Text: Hired. “God hath given me,” said Leah, “my hire...and she called his name Issachar.” He was Jacob’s ninth son, and was born in Padan-aram. He had four sons at the going down into Egypt,. Issachar, Tribe of, during the journey through the wilderness, along with Judah and Zebulun, marched on the east of the tabernacle. This tribe contained 54,400 fighting men when the census was taken at Sinai. After the entrance into the Promised Land, this tribe was one of the six which stood on Gerizim during the ceremony of the blessing and cursing. The allotment of Issachar is described in. It included the plain of Esdraelon, which was and still is the richest portion of Palestine,;. The prophetic blessing pronounced by Jacob on Issachar corresponds with that of Moses,; comp.,.
Disambiguation Notes: Issachar (sons of Leah: Reuben)
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Verses
- Judges 5:15: And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
- Numbers 1:28: Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
- Numbers 10:15: And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
- Joshua 21:6: And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
- Numbers 7:18: On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:
- 1 Chronicles 2:1: These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
- Genesis 35:23: The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
- Ezekiel 48:25: And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.
- 1 Chronicles 7:1: Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
- Exodus 1:3: Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
- Deuteronomy 33:18: And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.
- Deuteronomy 27:12: These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:
- 2 Chronicles 30:18: For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one
- Ezekiel 48:26: And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.
- 1 Chronicles 12:32: And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
- Joshua 19:23: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.
- 1 Chronicles 6:72: And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,
- Genesis 30:18: And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
- Numbers 26:25: These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.
- 1 Chronicles 7:5: And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.
- Numbers 1:8: Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
- Genesis 46:13: And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
- Numbers 34:26: And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
- 1 Kings 4:17: Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
- Numbers 26:23: Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:
- 1 Chronicles 12:40: Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 27:18: Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:
- 1 Chronicles 6:62: And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
- Numbers 2:5: And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar.
- Joshua 19:17: And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families.
- Numbers 13:7: Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
- Genesis 49:14: Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
- Numbers 1:29: Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
- 1 Kings 15:27: And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
- Revelation 7:7: Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
- Ezekiel 48:33: And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
- Judges 10:1: And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
- Joshua 21:28: And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs,
