Generally speaking, the land of Zebulun occupied a broad wedge in southern Galilee between Asher and Naphtali with Manasseh to the southwest and Isaachar to the southeast.
In the great covenant renewal ceremony at Shechem, Zebulun was assigned an inferior place with Reuben and the "handmaiden" tribes (Deuteronomy 27:13).
Zebulun suffered severely in the Assyrian invasion under Tiglath-pileser (2 Kings 15:29; cf. Isaiah 9:1), many of its inhabitants were deported and its territory was assimilated into the Assyrian empire. However, its tribal identity survived, and its inhabitants are included among the participants in Hezekiah's Passover (2 Chronicles 30:10-22). [Tyndale House, The Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Vol. 3, pp. 1676-1677] [See Matthew 4:13-16]
2 Nephi 19:1 Land of Zebulun ([Illustration]): The territory of Zebulun with approximate boundaries. [Tyndale House, The Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Vol. 3, p. 1676]
2 Nephi 19:1 The land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali ([Illustration]): The lands of Zebulun and Naphtali are in Galilee, where Jesus lived much of His youth. Artist: Tom Child. [Thomas R. Valletta ed., The Book of Mormon for Latter-day Saint Families, 1999, p. 117]
“The Land of Zebulun”
Donald Parry makes Isaiah 9:1 (compare 2 Nephi 19:1) part of an extended section from Isaiah 8:16 to 9:2 (compare 2 Nephi 18:16-19:2) and gives it the title "Sealing the Testimony and the Law." It reads as follows:
Sealing the Testimony and the Law (8:16-9:2)
Bind up the testimony,
seal the law among my disciples. (8:16)
And I will wait upon the Lord, who hides his face from the house of Jacob,
and I will hope for him. (8:17)
Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of Hosts,
who dwells in mount Zion. (8:18)
And when they will say unto you, seek unto them that have [spirits of the dead],
and unto wizards that peep and mutter--
should not a people seek unto their God
for the living to [hear from] the dead? (8:19)
To the law and to the testimony; [and] if they speak not according to this word,
it is because there is no light in him. (8:20)
And he will pass through the land, distressed and hungry;
and it will come to pass that when he becomes hungry,
he will become enraged,
and curse his king and his God,
and he will look upward. (8:21)
And he will look to the earth;
And behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish;
and he will be thrust into darkness. (8:22)
But there will be no gloom for those who were in anguish.
In former times he held the land of Zebulun
and the land of Naphtali in contempt,
but afterwards he honored Galilee of the nations, by the way of the [Red] Sea,
along the Jordan. (9:1)
The people who are walking in darkness have seen a great light;
those who dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined. (9:2)
The Messiah---The Son Becomes the New King (9:3-7)
You have increased the rejoicing,
you have magnified the joy;
[and] they rejoice before you as one rejoices at harvest time,
and as one rejoices when dividing the booty, (9:3)
[Donald W. Parry, Harmonizing Isaiah, pp. 62-64]