Numbers 13:24

That place was called the Stream of Grapes, on account of the grapes ( athkela) which the sons of Israel cut down from thence.

Targum Onkelos

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

23And they came to the Stream of Grapes, and cut down there a branch, with one cluster of grapes, and carried it on a staff between two; and (they took also) of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

25And they returned from the exploration of the country at the end of forty days.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:23And they came to the Stream of Grapes, and cut down there a branch, with one cluster of grapes, and carried it on a staff between two; and (they took also) of the pomegranates, and of the 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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