Genesis 49:14-15
“Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens.”
King James Version
Issachar's tribe predicted as hard-working and content with agricultural labor, fulfilled in their settled fertile territory.
Fulfillment References
Joshua 19:17-23 Judges 5:15
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