24The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
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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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