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Joshua 12:22

Joshua 15:23

Joshua 19:37

Joshua 20:7

Joshua 21:32

Judges 4:6

2 Kings 15:29

1 Chronicles 6:72

1 Chronicles 6:76

(a sanctuary)

  1. In the extreme south of Judah (Joshua 15:23), same as Kadesh and Kadesh-barnea.
  2. A city of Issachar allotted to the Gershonite Levites (1 Chronicles 6:72). The Kadesh mentioned among the cities whose kings were slain by Joshua (Joshua 12:22), in company with Megiddo and Jokneam of Carmel, would seem to have been this city of Issachar.
  3. Kedesh; also Kedesh in Galilee; and once (Judges 4:6) Kedesh-naphtali, one of the fortified cities of the tribe of Naphtali, named between Hazor and Edrei (Joshua 19:37), appointed as a city of refuge and allotted with its “suburbs” to the Gershonite Levites (Joshua 20:7; 21:32; 1 Chronicles 6:76). It was the residence of Barak (Judges 4:6), and there he and Deborah assembled the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali before the conflict, being probably, as its name implies, a “holy place” of great antiquity. It was taken by Tiglath-pileser in the reign of Pekah (2 Kings 15:29). It is identified with the village Kades, which lies four miles to the northwest of the upper part of the Sea of Merom.

Smith's Bible Names Dictionary (1866)

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