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Kedesh

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

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Ke´desh. There were two cities of this name; one in the tribe of Judah (), and the other in the tribe of Naphtali (). This last was the more considerable of the two; it was a Levitical city, and one of the six cities of refuge. As the Kedesh whose king was slain by Joshua is mentioned among the cities of the north (), it was doubtless the Kedesh of Naphtali, of which also Barak was a native ().

 

 

 

 

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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Kedesh'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​k/kedesh.html.
 
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