Issachar in the Bible

Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my slave to my husband,” and she named him Issachar.

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

Issachar’s sons: Tola, Puvah, Jashub, and Shimron.

Issachar is a strong donkey
lying down between the saddlebags.

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.

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;

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

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.

On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:

And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethaneel the son of Zuar.

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

Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:

These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.

And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.

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

Of Zebulun he said: Rejoice, Zebulun, when you go outside, and Issachar, when you are in your tents.

Ephraim's territory was to the south, and Manasseh's to the north. The sea was Manasseh's western border and their territory touched Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.

Within Issachar's and Asher's territory Manasseh was assigned Beth Shean, Ibleam, the residents of Dor, En Dor, the residents of Taanach, the residents of Megiddo, the three of Napheth, and the towns surrounding all these cities.

The fourth lot belonged to the tribe of Issachar by its clans.

This was the land assigned to the tribe of Issachar by its clans, including the cities and their towns.

Gershon's descendants were allotted thirteen cities from the clans of the tribe of Issachar, and from the tribes of Asher and Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

from the tribe of Issachar: Kishon, Daberath,

Issachar's leaders were with Deborah, the men of Issachar supported Barak; into the valley they were sent under Barak's command. Among the clans of Reuben there was intense heart searching.

After Abimelech's death, Tola son of Puah, grandson of Dodo, from the tribe of Issachar, rose up to deliver Israel. He lived in Shamir in the Ephraimite hill country.

Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar.

And Baasha son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him, and Baasha smote him in Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, - Nadab and all Israel being in siege against Gibbethon.

These, are the sons of Israel, - Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;

And to the children of Gershom according to 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.

and out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh and its suburbs, Dobrath and its suburbs,

And the sons of Issachar were Tola and Puah, Jashub and Shimron, four.

And their brethren among all the families of Issachar valiant men of might, registered by genealogy, in all eighty-seven thousand.

And, of the sons of Issachar, such as were of good understanding of the times, to know what Israel, should do, their chiefs, were two hundred, and, all their brethren, were at their bidding.

Moreover also, they who were near of kin unto them, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, were bringing bread, on asses and on camels and on mules and on oxen, meal-food, cakes of figs and cakes of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep - in abundance, - for there was joy Israel.

Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai, the eighth, - for God had blessed him.

Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David. Of Issachar, Omri, son of Michael.

For a multitude of the people, many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, and they ate the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them saying, Jehovah, who is good, forgive every one

And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar one.

And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun one.

And at the south side four thousand and five hundred cubits by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.