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the Valley Eshcol

or The brook of, a wady in the neighborhood of Hebron (Mamre), explored by the spies who were sent by Moses from Kadesh-barnea. (Numbers 13:23,24; 1:24) The name is still attached to a spring of fine water called Ain Eshkali , in a valley about two miles north of Hebron.

Strong's Hebrew

812. Eshkol -- an Amorite, also a region of Hebron
... Eshcol. The same as 'eshkowl; Eshcol, the name of an Amorite, also of a valley in
Palestine -- Eshcol. see HEBREW 'eshkowl. 811, 812. Eshkol. 813 . ...
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Library

Afraid of Giants
... So they returned with their pomegranates and figs, and a great bunch of the grapes
for which the valley identified with Eshcol is still famous, swinging on a ...
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The Report of the Hebrew Spies
... When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down from there a branch with one
cluster of grapes and brought it away on a pole carried by two men. ...
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Chapter xiv
... Now the valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits, and as the kings of ... who was dwelling
by the terebinths of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner ...
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The Well-Beloved's vineyard.
... Christ has gathered some of His choicest clusters from the valley of poverty. ... and
hope, and patience; let us yield great clusters like those of Eshcol, all for ...
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The Comforts Belonging to Mourners
... The valley of tears brings the soul into a paradise of joy ... So the comforts of the
Spirit are the earnest, the cluster of grapes' at Eshcol (Numbers 13:23), the ...
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The Vanguard and Rereward of the Church
... Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and ...
milk and honey; the vines that are to bear you grapes of Eshcol are already ...
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"Alas for Us, if Thou Wert All, and Nought Beyond, O Earth"
... Canaan ours from Dan to Beersheba, and shall we eat no fruit from Eshcol's vine
on ... better land, and we, though we sleep with the clods of the valley, shall in ...
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Letter cviii. To Eustochium.
... [2814] Next turning to the right she passed from Bethzur [2815] to Eshcol which
means ... 13. It would be tedious were I tell of the valley of Achor, that is, of ...
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