Esh'col, The valley
or The brook of, a wady in the neighborhood of Hebron (Mamre), explored by the spies who were sent by Moses from Kadesh-barnea.
Nu 13:23-24; De 1:24
The name is still attached to a spring of fine water called 'Ain Eshkali, in a valley about two miles north of Hebron.
Then they came to the valley of Eshcol and from there cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a pole between two men, with some of the pomegranates and the figs. That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut down from there.
"They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol and spied it out.
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