Numbers 13:24

Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

In Context

23When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.

25After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,

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Cross References

Numbers 13:23When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 13:22-26

21 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath. 22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 24 The place was called the brook… Read the whole commentary →

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