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Valley of Eshcol

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The valley where, Numbers 13:23–24 says, the spies cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes and carried it on a staff between two; it was called the valley of Eshcol because of the cluster the children of Israel cut down there. Numbers 32:9 has Moses recall that the fathers he sent from Kadesh Barnea went up to the valley of Eshcol, saw the land and discouraged the children of Israel.

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DEU 1:19–25, engwebp
¹⁹We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.
²⁰I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God gives to us.
²¹Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.”
²²You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, “Let’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.”
²³The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe.
²⁴They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.
²⁵They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which the LORD our God gives to us.”
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NUM 13:21–24, engwebp
²¹So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
²²They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
²³They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.
²⁴That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
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NUM 13:23–24, engwebp
²³They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.
²⁴That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
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NUM 32:6–15, engwebp
⁶Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
⁷Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?
⁸Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
⁹For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
¹⁰The LORD’s anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying,
¹¹‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,
¹²except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have followed the LORD completely.’
¹³The LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in the LORD’s sight was consumed.
¹⁴“Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
¹⁵For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.”
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Valley of Eshcol” by name and 4 shared verses. The centre of the area given for its leading identification, within 5 km of Hebron (confidence 590 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event.

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within 5 km of Hebron
OpenBible.info confidence 590 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.52509, 35.10222
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Valley of Eshcol” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (1) — The land spied out from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob; the cluster from Eshcol

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Entry: Valley of Eshcol (place-eshcol-valley)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/eshcol-valley
Current wording: The valley where, Numbers 13:23–24 says, the spies cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes and carried it on a staff between two; it was called the valley of Eshcol because of the cluster the children of Israel cut down there. Numbers 32:9 has Moses recall that the fathers he sent from Kadesh Barnea went up to the valley of Eshcol, saw the land and discouraged the children of Israel.
Cited evidence: DEU 1:19–25, engwebp / NUM 13:21–24, engwebp / NUM 13:23–24, engwebp / NUM 32:6–15, engwebp
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