There is a passage in the Old Testament about a group of men within the people of Israel. It is small. Obscure really. But someone brought it to my attention.
They were the men of Issachar.
We don’t know much about them. Issachar himself was the fifth son of Jacob and Leah, and the ninth son overall for the patriarch. The name itself seems to derive from the joining of the Hebrew word for “man” and the Hebrew word for “wages,” thus a “hired man” or “hired worker.”
