Then Leah said, “God has given me my reward because I have given my maid to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.

The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;

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

“Issachar is [like] a strong-boned donkey,
Crouching down between the sheepfolds.

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

from [the tribe of] Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar;

Of the sons of Issachar, their descendants, by their families (clans), by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:

those of the tribe of Issachar numbered 54,400.

Next to Judah [on the east side] the tribe of Issachar shall encamp; and Nethanel the son of Zuar shall lead the sons of Issachar,

and his army as numbered totaled 54,400.

On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, leader [of the tribe] of Issachar, presented [his offering];

and Nethanel the son of Zuar was [commander] over the tribal army of the sons of Issachar;

from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;

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

These are the families (clans) of Issachar according to those who were numbered, 64,300.

from the tribe of the sons of Issachar a leader, 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, in your interests abroad,
And, Issachar, in your tents [at home].

The land on the south side belonged to Ephraim and that on the north side was Manasseh’s, and the sea was their border; they reached to [the territory of] Asher on the north and to [the territory of] Issachar on the east.

Also, in Issachar and in Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean and its towns and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; the third is Napheth.

The fourth lot fell to [the tribe of] Issachar, to the sons of Issachar according to their families.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.

The sons of Gershon received thirteen cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

From the tribe of Issachar, they gave Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,

“And the heads of Issachar came with Deborah;
As Issachar, so was Barak;
Into the valley they rushed at his heels;
Among the divisions of Reuben
There were great searchings of heart.

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

Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in [the tribe of] Issachar;

Baasha the son of Ahijah of the house (tribe) of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, while Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, were given thirteen cities from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and [the other half of] Manasseh in Bashan.

from the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh and Daberath with their pasture lands,

The sons of Issachar were: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four in all.

Their relatives among all the families of Issachar, courageous men, registered by genealogies, were 87,000 in all.

Of the tribe of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, two hundred chiefs; and all their relatives were at their command;

Also those who were [living] near them [from] as far as [the tribes of] Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen, abundant supplies of flour, cakes of figs and raisins, wine, [olive] oil, oxen, and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.

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

of Judah, Elihu, one of David’s brothers; of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;

For the majority of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, and yet they ate the Passover contrary to what had been prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon

Beside the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one portion.

Beside the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one portion.

On the south side, 4,500 cubits, by measurement, also three gates: one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.