Issachar

Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband.” She named him Issachar.

The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.

“Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.

Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and the prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar.

On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, gave his offering.

Nethanel the son of Zuar was over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar.

Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.

The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;

These are the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.

Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.

“These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have passed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

About Zebulun he said, “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and Issachar, in your tents.

The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.

The children of Gershon had thirteen cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

Out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs,

The princes of Issachar were with Deborah. As was Issachar, so was Barak. They rushed into the valley at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben, there were great resolves of heart.

After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.