The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

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.

And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.

And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.

And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.