24 That place was called the Valley of Eshkol because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut off there.

Other Translations of Numbers 13:24

King James Version

24 The place was called the brook brook: or, valley Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

English Standard Version

24 That place was called the Valley of Eshcol,Eshcol means cluster because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there.

The Message

24 They named the place Eshcol Valley (Grape-Cluster-Valley) because of the huge cluster of grapes they had cut down there.

New King James Version

24 The place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down there.

New Living Translation

24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol (which means "cluster"), because of the cluster of grapes the Israelite men cut there.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Numbers 13:24

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.