Numbers 13:24
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New International Version (©2011)
That place was called the Valley of Eshkol because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut off there.

New Living Translation (©2007)
That place was called the valley of Eshcol (which means "cluster"), because of the cluster of grapes the Israelite men cut there.

English Standard Version (©2001)
That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut down from there.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
That place was called the Valley of Eshcol because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The entire place was called the Eshcol Valley on account of the cluster of grapes that the men of Israel had taken from there.

NET Bible (©2006)
That place was called the Eshcol Valley, because of the cluster of grapes that the Israelites cut from there.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So they called that valley Eshcol [Bunch of Grapes] because of the bunch of grapes the Israelites cut off there.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from there.

American King James Version
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from there.

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.

English Revised Version
That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

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

World English Bible
That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.

Young's Literal Translation
That place hath one called Brook of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut from thence.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

13:21-25 The searchers of the land brought a bunch of grapes with them, and other fruits, as proofs of the goodness of the country; which was to Israel both the earnest and the specimen of all the fruits of Canaan. Such are the present comforts we have in communion with God, foretastes of the fulness of joy we expect in the heavenly Canaan. We may see by them what heaven is.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 24. - The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster. It is very probable that it was already known as the valley of Eshcol, from the friend of Abraham, who bore that name and lived in that neighbourhood (Genesis 14:13, 24). If so it is an admirable instance of the loose way in which etymologies are treated in the Old Testament: what the place really received was not a new name, but a new signification to the old name; but this appeared all one in the eyes of the sacred writer.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The place was called the brook of Eshcol,.... That is, in later times:

because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence; the word "Eschol" signifying a "cluster"; and this cluster was typical of Christ, who may be compared to this, as he is to a cluster of camphire, Sol 1:14; there being in him a "cluster" of all perfections, of all the perfections of deity, the whole fulness of the Godhead dwelling bodily in him; and of all human perfections, he being in all things like unto his people, excepting sin; and there being also a cluster of all the graces and gifts of the Spirit without measure in him, as man; and of all the blessings of grace for his people, as Mediator; and of all the exceeding great and precious promises of the covenant of grace. The "staff", on which this was carried, may denote the ministration of the Gospel, which may seem mean and despicable in itself, but is the means of carrying the name of Christ, and the things of Christ, about in the world; see Acts 9:15; and the "two" men which bore it, may signify the prophets of the Old Testament, and the ministers of the New, who both agree and join together in setting forth the person, offices, and grace of Christ. Moreover, this cluster may be an emblem of the Spirit of God, and his grace, and of the rich experience the people of God have of it in this present lift, while travellers in the wilderness, as a taste and earnest of the future glory and happiness in the heavenly Canaan.

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The Spies Explore Canaan
…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.

Numbers 13:23 When they reached the Valley of Eshkol, they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates and figs.
Numbers 13:25 At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.
Numbers 32:9 After they went up to the Valley of Eshkol and viewed the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the LORD had given them.