ii. Immediately north of Issachar was the allotment of ZEBULUN,

extending from the _Sea of Chinnereth_[167] (afterwards _the Lake of Gennesareth_) on the east, towards the Mediterranean on the west. Besides the fertile plain near the fisheries of the lake, this tribe possessed the _goings out_ (Deut. xxxiii. 18), the outlet of the plain of Akka, where it could _suck of the abundance of the seas_.