Category:Issachar

Issachar is a biblical figure who was a son of Jacob and Leah. He was the Patriarch of one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, the Tribe of Issachar.

- ---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Issachar - Hired (Genesis 30:18). "God hath given me," said Leah, "my hire (Heb. sekhari )... and she called his name Issachar." He was Jacob's ninth son, and was born in Padan-aram (compare Genesis 28:2). He had four sons at the going down into Egypt (Genesis 46:13; Numbers 26:23, Numbers 26:25). Tribe of Issachar, during the journey through the wilderness, along with Judah and Zebulun (Numbers 2:5), 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 (Deuteronomy 27:12). The allotment of Issachar is described in Joshua 19:17. It included the plain of Esdraelon (= Jezreel), which was and still is the richest portion of Palestine (Deuteronomy 33:18, Deuteronomy 33:19; 1 Chronicles 12:40). The prophetic blessing pronounced by Jacob on Issachar corresponds with that of Moses (Genesis 49:14, Genesis 49:15; compare Deuteronomy 33:18, Deuteronomy 33:19).