Numbers 13:23

For when they went up to 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 Yahweh had given them.

There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.

Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.

Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.

That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.

But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”

From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.

In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

The families of Kiriath Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey.

Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?

“Now rise up, and cross over the brook Zered.” We went over the brook Zered.

The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”

The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,

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

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.

Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.

Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubble; so that we are not able to build the wall.”

Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage will fail. The harvest won’t come.

The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting.

The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.

Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’ ”

I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.