KJV King James Version
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.
That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
That place hath one called Brook of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut from thence.
21 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, [were]. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23 And 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.
24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this [is] the fruit of it.
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