Issachar
Issachar means "there is recompence" or there is reward or "man of hire". He is the 9th son of Jacob, the 5th son of Leah (excluding her handmaid's sons) and he could have lived from 2180 FC to 2280 FC (1788 BC – 1688 BC | perhaps 100 yrs). Jacob might have been 72 yrs old when Issachar was born?
Before Issachar was born, according to Genesis 30:14-15, Reuben the 1st son of Leah found mandrakes and brought it to his mother. Rachel asked Leah the mandrakes, but when Leah refused, Rachel offered that Jacob would sleep with Leah that night. Assuming that Reuben started helping his father when Jacob started to work on his own flock, which was when he was 71 (2179 FC 1789 BC), the mandrake event could have been also on the same year. If so, Issachar would be born the year after, when Jacob is 72.
Verses that mention "Issachar"
Genesis 30:18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
Genesis 35:23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
Genesis 46:13 And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.
Genesis 49:14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
Exodus 1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Numbers 1:8 Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
Numbers 1:28 Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers 1:29 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
Numbers 2:5 And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar.
Numbers 7:18 On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:
Numbers 10:15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
Numbers 13:7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
Numbers 26:23 Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:
Numbers 26:25 These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.
Numbers 34:26 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
Deuteronomy 27:12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:
Deuteronomy 33:18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.
Joshua 17:10 Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.
Joshua 17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.
Joshua 19:17 And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families.
Joshua 19:23 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.
Joshua 21:6 And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
Joshua 21:28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs,
Judges 5:15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
Judges 10:1 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
