Dict: smith - KEDESH

smith:

KEDESH - K>@ - (a sanctuary). In the extreme south of Judah, kjv@Joshua:15:23) same as Kadesh and Kadesh-barnea. A city of Issachar, allotted to the Gershonite Levites. ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:72) The Kadesh mentioned among the cities whose kings were slain by Joshua, kjv@Joshua:12:22) in company with Megiddo and Jokneam of Carmel, would seem to have been this city of Issachar. Kedesh; also Kedesh in Galilee; and once, kjv@Judges:4:6) Kedesh-naphtali, one of the fortified cities of the tribe of Naphtali, named between Hazor and Edrei, kjv@Joshua:19:37) appointed as a city of refuge, and allotted with its "suburbs" to the Gershonite Levites. kjv@Joshua:20:7 kjv@Joshua:21:32; kjv@1Chronicles:6:76) It was the residence of Barak, kjv@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. ( kjv@2Kings: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.