Deuteronomy 1:24 Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:24
24: They crossed into the hills and came to the valley of Eshcol and explored it.
Numbers 13:21
- So they went up and explored the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.
- Going northward, they passed first through the Negev and arrived at Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai--all descendants of Anak--lived. (The ancient town of Hebron was founded seven years before the Egyptian city of Zoan.)
- When they came to what is now known as the valley of Eshcol, they cut down a cluster of grapes so large that it took two of them to carry it on a pole between them! They also took samples of the pomegranates and figs.
- At that time the Israelites renamed the valley Eshcol--"cluster"--because of the cluster of grapes they had cut there.
- After exploring the land for forty days, the men returned
Joshua 2:1
- Then Joshua secretly sent out two spies from the Israelite camp at Acacia. He instructed them, "Spy out the land on the other side of the Jordan River, especially around Jericho." So the two men set out and came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there that night.
- But someone told the king of Jericho, "Some Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land."