to complete the conquest of their land in the land of Canaan at the beginning of the Book of Judges.

R' David Kimchi (ReDaK) to I Chronicles 9:1 expounds that there remained from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun in the territory of Judah after the exile of the ten tribes. This remnant returned with the tribe of Judah after the Babylonian exile.

Rabbinic literature

The tribe of Issachar is particularly represented as one which consisted mostly of scholars, to which

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