Issachar in Biblical History

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Who is Issachar?
IS'SACHAR
(God hath given me my hire). 1. The fifth son of Jacob and Leah. Gen 30:18. The prophetical description of him uttered by his father, Gen 49:14-15, was fulfilled in the fact that the posterity of Issachar were a laborious people and addicted to rural employments, and were subject to the tributes of marauding tribes. See Tribes. 2. A Korhite Levite. 1 Chr 26:5.

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