21 So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob , at Lebo-hamath . 22 When they had gone up into the Negev , they came to Hebron where Ahiman , Sheshai and Talmai , the descendants of Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt .) 23 Then they came to the valley of Eshcol and from there cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes ; and they carried it on a pole between two men, with some of the pomegranates and the figs . 24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol , because e of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut down from there . 25 When they returned from spying out the land , at the end of forty days ,
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Numbers 13:21-25
Commentary on Numbers 13:21-25
(Read Numbers 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.