Eshcol

thumb|Joshua and Caleb carry a giant bunch of grapes from Escol Eshcol is a valley in which the twelve spies obtained an enormous cluster of grapes in Numbers 13:23-24, at "the brook Eshcol" (called "the valley of Eshcol" in Numbers 32:9 and Deuteronomy 1:24), which they took back with them to the camp of Israel as a specimen of the fruits of the Promised Land. The Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia notes that the valley is still very fruitful. Quotes about Thus your fathers did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the Lord had given them. Book of Numbers 32:8-9 NKJV. Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. The place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down there. Numbers 13:23-24 NKJV. And they departed and went up into the mountains, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. They also took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought back word to us, saying, ‘It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us.’ Book of Deuteronomy 1:24-25 NKJV. External links Category:Valleys in the Bible