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Numbers 32:9 Cross-References
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“For when they went up unto 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.”
Numbers 32:9 (KJV)
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They went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land (עַד־נַחַל אֶשְׁכּוֹל וַיִּרְאוּ אֶת־הָאָרֶץ)—Eshcol means 'cluster,' named for the enormous grape cluster the spies carried back (Numbers 13:23), visual proof of Canaan's richness. Yet seeing God's provision led to opposite conclusions: Joshua/Caleb saw divine bounty; the ten spies saw unconquerable danger. They discouraged the heart of the children of Israel (וַיְנִיאוּ אֶת־לֵב בְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל, vayeni'u)—the verb means 'to dishearten/frustrate,' causing corporate despair.Moses' accusation cuts deep: Gad and Reuben's request will prod...
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Cross-References for Numbers 32:9
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“and came to the valley of Eshcol”
“and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes”