Chesulloth

Chesulloth (meaning fertile places or the loins) was a town of the tribe of Issachar on the slopes overlooking the valley of Jezreel (Josh. 19:18). It is likely identical with Chisloth-tabor (Josh. 19:12), a place on the border of Zebulun near Mount Tabor. The site is tentatively identified with modern Iksal, a village on the hills southeast of Nazareth commanding the Jezreel Valley. As a border town of Issachar, it lay in the fertile agricultural heartland of northern Israel.