Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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 unto the river of Eshcol and they cut down there a branch with one cluster of grapes and bare it upon a staff between twain, and also of the pomegranates and of the figs of the place.