Kedesh

City in the Bible

Other names: Kedesh-naphtali

Located in: Naphtali

Location: 33.11° N, 35.53° E (approximate; the location is disputed or uncertain)

Several places in the Bible may have this name. The verses below may mix them up.

Mentioned in 9 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.

Where Kedesh is mentioned

  • 1 Chronicles 6:76

    And from the tribe of Naphtali they were given Kedesh in Galilee, Hammon, and Kiriathaim, together with their pasturelands.

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  • 2 Kings 15:29

    In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.

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  • Judges 4:9–11

    9 “I will certainly go with you,” Deborah replied, “but the road you are taking will bring you no honor, because the LORD will be selling Sisera into the hand of a woman.” So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh,

    10 where he summoned Zebulun and Naphtali. Ten thousand men followed him, and Deborah also went with him.

    11 Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.

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  • Joshua 12:20–23

    20 the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;

    21 the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;

    22 the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

    23 the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;

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  • Joshua 19:37–38

    37 Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor,

    38 Iron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh. There were nineteen cities, along with their villages.

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  • Joshua 20:7

    So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

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  • Joshua 21:32

    And from the tribe of Naphtali they were given Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Hammoth-dor, and Kartan—three cities, together with their pasturelands.

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