The fourth lot came out for Issachar, for the people of Issachar, according to their clans.
The lot of Issachar ran from Jordan in the east to the great sea in the west, Manasseh on the south, and Zebulun on the north. A numerous tribe, Num 26:25. Tola, one of the judges, was of this tribe, Jdg 10:1. So was Baasha, one of the kings of Israel, Kg1 15:27. The most considerable places in this tribe were, 1.
Commenting on Joshua 19:17-23
And their border was towards Jezreel,.... Which was a royal seat in the time of Ahab, Kg1 21:1; and according to Jerom was near to Maximianopolis; See Gill on Hos 1:5; and the same writer (u) says in his day a large village of this name was shown in the great plain between Scythopolis and Legion (he means the plain of Jezreel), and it was...
OF ISSACHAR. (Jos 19:17-23) the fourth lot came out to Issachar--Instead of describing the boundaries of this tribe, the inspired historian gives a list of its principal cities. These cities are all in the eastern part of the plain of Esdraelon.
Commenting on Joshua 19:17-23