KEDESH
- Easton's
- Nave's
- Torrey's
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sanctuary.
A place in the extreme south of Judah (Joshua 15:23). Probably
the same as Kadesh-barnea (q.v.).
A city of Issachar (1 Chronicles 6:72).
Possibly Tell Abu Kadeis, near Lejjun.
A "fenced city" of Naphtali, one of the cities of refuge (Joshua 19:37; Judges 4:6). It was
assigned to the Gershonite Levites (Joshua 21:32). It was
originally a Canaanite royal city (Joshua 12:22), and was
the residence of Barak (Judges 4:6); and here he
and Deborah assembled the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali before the commencement
of the conflict with Sisera in the plain of Esdraelon, "for Jehovah among the
mighty" (9,10). In the reign of Pekah it was taken by Tiglath-Pileser (2 Kings 15:29). It was
situated near the "plain" (rather "the oak") of Zaanaim, and has been identified
with the modern Kedes, on the hills fully four miles north-west of Lake El
Huleh.
It has been supposed by some that the Kedesh of the narrative, where Barak
assembled his troops, was not the place in Upper Galilee so named, which was 30
miles distant from the plain of Esdraelon, but Kedish, on the shore of the Sea
of Galilee, 12 miles from Tabor.
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