Where was Kadesh?

Holy, or Kadesh-Barnea, sacred desert of wandering, a place on the south-eastern border of Palestine, about 165 miles from Horeb. It lay in the “wilderness” or “desert of Zin”. Modern identification: Tell Nebi Mend.

Kadesh is represented in the local geography layer as Tell Nebi Mend. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in 2 Samuel 24:6 and is mentioned across 1 book, with 1 verse reference collected into the glossary index.