A place on the western frontier of Edom, in the "wilderness of Paran," "eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir" (Numbers 13:26, 20:16; Deuteronomy 1:2). In whole or in part, the same region was apparently known also as the "wilderness of Zin" (Numbers 13:21, 20:1), as the "wilderness of Kadesh" (Psalms 29:8), and as the "country of the Amalekites" (Genesis 14:7). The term "city" (
The site of Kadesh was discovered in 1842 by John Rowland, and has since been visited and described by Trumbull. It lies midway between Al-'Arish and Mount Hor in a great treeless limestone plateau. The spring of clear water, which rises at the foot of a limestone cliff, is still called "'Ain-Ḳadis"= "spring of Kadesh."
Bibliography:
- Trumbull, Kadesh Barnea, New York, 1884;
- Pal. Explor. Fund Quarterly Statement, 1881, p. 210;
- Palmer, Desert of the Exodus;
- Gray, Commentary on Numbers.
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