Bible Game · Chapter 13
The Twelve Scouts
The twelve who scouted Canaan returned after forty days. They brought back a cluster of grapes so large it took two to carry it on a pole — the land was indeed good. Yet ten said, "We cannot go up," and two said, "We are well able." They had seen the same land.
Old Testament · Numbers 13-14 · the twelve who scouted Canaan
Unfamiliar words in this case
- Canaan — the promised land Israel was to enter, said to flow with milk and honey.
- giants · the Anakim · the Nephilim — the tall, strong people of that land; Scripture calls them the Anakim, or Nephilim.
The painting in this case
Giovanni Lanfranco · c. 1621 · oil on canvas · J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Painted by Lanfranco of the Bolognese Carracci school. That huge cluster slung on a pole is the grapes of Eshcol — the evidence the scouts carried back from Canaan.
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