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Contemporary English Version

Joshua 19:17

Issachar was the fourth tribe chosen to receive land. The northern border for its clans went from Mount Tabor east to the Jordan River. Their land included the following sixteen towns with their surrounding villages: Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem, Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath, Debirath, Kishion, Ebez, Remeth, En-Gannim, Enhaddah, Beth-Pazzez, Tabor, Shahazumah and Beth-Shemesh.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Issachar;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Issachar, the Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Dan;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Issachar;   Jezreel;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Issachar;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Esdraelon;   Issachar;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Issachar;   Joshua;   Zebulun;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lots;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Issachar;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Is'sachar;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Esdraelon, Plain of;   Issachar;   Joshua, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Issachar, Tribe of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The fourth lot came out for the tribe of Issachar’s descendants by their clans.
Hebrew Names Version
The fourth lot came out for Yissakhar, even for the children of Yissakhar according to their families.
King James Version
And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families.
Lexham English Bible
The fourth allotment fell for Issachar, for the descendants of Issachar, according to their families.
English Standard Version
The fourth lot came out for Issachar, for the people of Issachar, according to their clans.
New Century Version
The fourth part of the land was given to the tribe of Issachar. Each family group of Issachar received some of the land.
New English Translation
The fourth lot belonged to the tribe of Issachar by its clans.
Amplified Bible
The fourth lot fell to [the tribe of] Issachar, to the sons of Issachar according to their families.
New American Standard Bible
The fourth lot went to Issachar, to the sons of Issachar according to their families.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The fourth lot came out to Issachar, euen for the children of Issachar according to their families.
Legacy Standard Bible
The fourth lot came out for Issachar, for the sons of Issachar according to their families.
Complete Jewish Bible
The fourth lot came out for Yissakhar, for the descendants of Yissakhar according to their families.
Darby Translation
The fourth lot came forth to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families.
Easy-to-Read Version
The fourth part of the land was given to the tribe of Issachar. Each family in that tribe got its part of the land.
George Lamsa Translation
And the fourth lot came out to the children of Issachar, according to their families.
Good News Translation
The fourth assignment made was for the families of the tribe of Issachar.
Literal Translation
The fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the sons of Issachar according to their families.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The fourth lot fell vpo the childre of Isachar after their kynreds,
American Standard Version
The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.
Bible in Basic English
For Issachar the fourth heritage came out, for the children of Issachar by their families;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the fourth lot came out to Isachar, euen for the children of Isachar by their kinreds.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.
King James Version (1611)
And the fourth lot came out to Issachar for the children of Issachar according to their families.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the fourth lot came out to Issachar.
English Revised Version
The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.
Berean Standard Bible
The fourth lot came out for the clans of the tribe of Issachar:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The fourthe lot yede out to Isacar, bi hise meynees; and the eritage therof was Jezrael,
Young's Literal Translation
For Issachar hath the fourth lot gone out, for the sons of Issachar, for their families;
Update Bible Version
The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the sons of Issachar according to their families.
Webster's Bible Translation
[And] the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families.
World English Bible
The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.
New King James Version
The fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families.
New Living Translation
The fourth allotment of land went to the clans of the tribe of Issachar.
New Life Bible
The fourth name drawn was for the families of the people of Issachar.
New Revised Standard
The fourth lot came out for Issachar, for the tribe of Issachar, according to its families.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For Issachar, came out the fourth lot, - for the sons of Issachar, by their families.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The fourth lot came out to Issachar by their kindreds.
Revised Standard Version
The fourth lot came out for Is'sachar, for the tribe of Is'sachar, according to its families.
THE MESSAGE
The fourth lot went to Issachar, clan by clan. Their territory included: Jezreel, Kesulloth, Shunem, Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath, Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez, Remeth, En Gannim, En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The fourth lot fell to Issachar, to the sons of Issachar according to their families.

Contextual Overview

17Issachar was the fourth tribe chosen to receive land. The northern border for its clans went from Mount Tabor east to the Jordan River. Their land included the following sixteen towns with their surrounding villages: Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem, Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath, Debirath, Kishion, Ebez, Remeth, En-Gannim, Enhaddah, Beth-Pazzez, Tabor, Shahazumah and Beth-Shemesh.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:14 - General Numbers 26:55 - by lot 1 Kings 4:17 - Issachar Ezekiel 48:25 - Issachar Revelation 7:7 - Issachar

Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
This happened before the Lord had destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. And when Lot looked around, he saw there was plenty of water in the Jordan Valley. All the way to Zoar the valley was as green as the garden of the Lord or the land of Egypt.
Genesis 18:22
The men turned and started toward Sodom. But the Lord stayed with Abraham,
Genesis 19:14
Lot went to the men who were engaged to his daughters and said, "Hurry and get out of here! The Lord is going to destroy this city." But they thought he was joking, and they laughed at him.
Genesis 19:15
Early the next morning the two angels tried to make Lot hurry and leave. They said, "Take your wife and your two daughters and get out of here as fast as you can! If you don't, every one of you will be killed when the Lord destroys the city."
Genesis 19:16
At first, Lot just stood there. But the Lord wanted to save him. So the angels took Lot, his wife, and his two daughters by the hand and led them out of the city.
Genesis 19:18
Lot answered, "You have done us a great favor, sir. You have saved our lives, but please don't make us go to the hills. That's too far away. The city will be destroyed before we can get there, and we will be killed when it happens.
Genesis 19:22
Hurry! Run! I can't do anything until you are safely there." The town was later called Zoar because Lot had said it was small.
Genesis 19:26
On the way, Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a block of salt.
Genesis 19:31
One day his older daughter said to her sister, "Our father is old, and there are no men anywhere for us to marry.
Genesis 19:32
Let's get our father drunk! Then we can sleep with him and have children."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[And] the fourth lot came out to Issachar,.... The fourth of the seven drawn at Shiloh:

for the children of Issachar, according to their families: among whom the inheritance that came to them by the lot was divided, according to the number of them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 19:17. The fourth lot came out to Issachar — It is remarkable, that though Issachar was the eldest brother, yet the lot of Zebulun was drawn before his lot; and this is the order in which Jacob himself mentions them, Genesis 49:13-14, though no reason appears, either here or in the place above, why this preference should be given to the younger; but that the apparently fortuitous lot should have distinguished them just as the prophetic Jacob did, is peculiarly remarkable. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning: he has reasons for his conduct, which in many cases are too great for any of his creatures to comprehend, but he works all things after the counsel of his own will, which is ever right and good; and in this case his influence may be as easily seen in the decision by the lot, as on the mind of the patriarch Jacob, when he predicted what should befall his children in the latter days, and his providence continued to ripen, and bring forward what his judgment had deemed right to be done.


 
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