21 And they go up and spy the land, from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob at the going in to Hamath; 22 and they go up by the south, and come in unto Hebron, and there 'are' Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, children of Anak (and Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt), 23 and they come in unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down thence a branch and one cluster of grapes, and they bear it on a staff by two, also 'some' of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 24 That place hath 'one' called Brook of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut from thence. 25 And they turn back from spying 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.