24 That place was called the Valley of Eshkol because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut off there.
24 That place was called the Valley of Eshcol,
24 They named the place Eshcol Valley (Grape-Cluster-Valley) because of the huge cluster of grapes they had cut down there.
24 The place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the men of Israel cut down there.
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.