The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from there. Context The Spies Explore Canaan
21So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, as men come to Hamath. 22And they ascended by the south, and came to Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) 23And they came to the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it between two on a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 24The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from there. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Which was called Nehelescol, that is to say, the torrent of the cluster of grapes, because from thence the children of Israel had carried a cluster of grapes.
Darby Bible Translation
That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the grapes which the children of Israel had cut down there.
King James Bible
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
Young's Literal Translation
That place hath one called Brook of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut from thence.
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