(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Numbers 13:21–25, “So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath. And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence. And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.”
These men knew their job and spent forty days looking through the Promised Land so that they could bring back a decent report for their leaders. They discovered a cluster of grapes that was so large it took two men to carry it back with them. They also brought back other fruit as well. They brought back evidence of the sweet and precious fruit of the Land. The Lord had already told Abraham the extent of the Land that He would give to Abraham (Gen 13:14–15, “And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.”) so it was important for these men to range far and wide so that they would be able to take possession of as much as the Lord promised to Abraham. If these men didn’t take the Lord’s promise to Abraham seriously and only look at a truncated Land it would be their fault and not the Lord’s for His promise was well documented.
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