And they told him,.... Moses, who was the chief ruler whom they addressed, and to whom they directed their speech:and said, we came unto the land whither thou sentest us; the land of Canaan, which they were sent by Moses to spy; this was said by ten of them or by one of them as their mouth; for Caleb and Joshua did not join with them in the following account, as appears from Nu 13:30;and surely it floweth with milk and honey; they own that the land answered to the description which the Lord had given of it when it was promised them by him, Ex 3:8;and this [is] the fruit of it; pointing to the bunch of grapes, the pomegranates and figs; not that these were a proof of its flowing with milk and honey, at least in a literal sense, but of the goodness and fruitfulness of the land: though the luxury of Bacchus, the god of wine, is by the poet described, not only by a fountain of wine, but by rivers of milk and flows of honey.
"Vinique fontem", &c. Horat. Carmin. l. 2.