23And 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.
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The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out. …
And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-25)We have here a short account of the survey which the spies made of the promised land. 1. They went quite through it, from Zin in the south, to Rehob, near Hamath, in the north, Num. 13:21. See Num. 34:3 ; 8 . It is probable that they did not go altogether in a body, lest they should be suspected and taken up, which there would be the more danger of if the Canaanites knew (and one would think they…
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