Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:22-25 
Context1:22 So all of you approached me and said, “Let’s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.” 1:23 I thought this was a good idea, 1 so I sent 2 twelve men from among you, one from each tribe. 1:24 They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley, 3 which they scouted out. 1:25 Then they took 4 some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying, “The land that the Lord our God is about to give us is good.”
1 tn Heb “the thing was good in my eyes.”
2 tn Or “selected” (so NIV, NRSV, TEV); Heb “took.”
3 tn Or “the Wadi Eshcol” (so NAB).
sn The Eshcol Valley is a verdant valley near Hebron, still famous for its viticulture (cf. Num 13:22-23). The Hebrew name “Eshcol” means “trestle,” that is, the frame on which grape vines grow.
4 tn The Hebrew text includes “in their hand,” which is unnecessary and somewhat redundant in English style.
