²² They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron,^(A) where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai,^(B) the descendants of Anak,^(C) lived. (Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)^{(D) 23} When they reached the Valley of Eshkol,^[a](E) they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates^(F) and figs.^{(G) 24} That place was called the Valley of Eshkol because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut off there.