Joshua 19:12
And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth-tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia, And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth-tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,
The verse belongs to the description of the land divided among the tribes of Israel in the allotment of Canaan. It is part of the geographical record of that distribution, setting out the boundaries and places assigned, a section resting on written documents that accurately described the property. In this chapter lot means a portion or division assigned in the distribution of land, and the verse is an instance of a lot fixing a person's allotted portion. It names Chisloth-tabor as a place on the boundary of the inheritance assigned to Issachar.
It places part of Issachar's territory within the districts afterward known as Galilee, which comprised the lands assigned to Asher, Naphtali, Zebulun, and Issachar. Those tribes did not fully possess their allotted territories but settled among the Canaanite population, at times making them tributary. The line traced here is part of Zebulun's boundary, running eastward from Sarid toward Chisloth-tabor, then out to Daberath and up to Japhia. The country lying between Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee belonged to Zebulun.