Genesis 49:14

Tree of Life Version

Issachar is a strong-boned donkey, lying down between two saddlebags.

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from the half-tribe of Manasseh 18,000 who were designated by name to come and make David king;

Leah said, “God gave me my reward because I gave my female servant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.

For Zebulun he said, ‘Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and Issachar, in your tents.

After Abimelech, Tola son of Puah son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to deliver Israel. He dwelt in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

He saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant. He leaned his shoulder to bear a burden, and became a forced laborer.

Then they came up to him and said, “We will build sheepfolds for our livestock and cities for our children.

“Kings of armies, flee, flee!” She who stays at home divides the spoil.

He also chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds,