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Summary
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
Brook
Bible References
Brook
Numbers 13:23
And they came as far as the valley of Eshcol, and cut down thence a branch with one bunch of grapes, and they bore it between two upon a pole; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.