Joshua 19:17

ISSACHAR

"The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families. And their border was unto Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem, and Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath, and Rabbith, and Kishion, and Ebez, and Remeth, and En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez, and the border reached to Tabor, and Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh; and the goings out of their border were at the Jordan: sixteen cities and their villages. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages."

"The lot of Isaachar comprised the plain of Esdraelon",[7] which was part of the richest land in Palestine, and, as Plummer noted, it is surprising that nothing very outstanding is afterward attributed to this tribe, with the one exception of the battle of Tabor. "Possibly the fact that the `lines of this tribe' had fallen in `pleasant places' tended to induce sloth."[8] Plummer also believed that the property of Issachar extended to a portion of the coast of the Sea of Galilee, basing his view upon Isaiah 9:1.