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    Kedesh (alternate spellings: Qedesh, Cadesh, Cydessa) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite settlement in Upper Galilee, mentioned several times...
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    Deborah as a "fiery woman." Deborah told Barak, an Israelite general from Kedesh in Naphtali, that God commanded him to lead an attack against the forces...
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  • Qadesh, Qedesh, Qetesh, Kadesh, Kedesh, Kadeš and Qades come from the common Semitic root "Q-D-Š", which means "sacred." Kadesh and variations may refer...
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    Israel, defeated the Canaanite armies led by Sisera. The son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, Barak's mother was from the Tribe of Benjamin. His story is...
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    Kedesh Shechem Hebron Golan Ramoth Bosor The cities of refuge (Hebrew: ערי המקלט ‘ārê ha-miqlāṭ) were six Levitical towns in the Kingdom of Israel and...
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    through his skull (Judges 4:17–21) near the great tree in Zaanaim near Kedesh. The Hebrew ya'el means ibex, a nimble, sure-footed mountain goat native...
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    Refuge were Golan, Ramoth, and Bezer, on the east of the Jordan River, and Kedesh, Shechem, and Hebron on the western side. Joshua 21 recounts the fulfilment...
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    contrast, denotes the Via Maris as a road from Ptolemais (Acco / Acre) to Kedesh (Kedesh-naphtali) in the Galilee – also leading west to east, but slightly further...
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    different words describing places in the Hebrew Bible use this root. One is Kedesh, which refers to a Canaanite village first documented in Joshua 20:7 and...
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    of Yaroun. Yir'on is mentioned once in the Bible as a fortified city: "Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor, Yir'on, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh"...
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