Biblical places
Arad
The Canaanite king's city Israel encountered to the south after spying out Canaan (Numbers 21:1); it later became an Israelite town, where a temple from the kingdom of Judah has been excavated. Firmly identified with Tel Arad in the Negev desert.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Tel Arad
- 31.2808, 35.1250
A site whose location has been confirmed through excavations spanning several generations, with no disagreement between sources.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Numbers 21:1
And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.
Joshua 12:14
The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
Judges 1:16
And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.
Numbers 33:40
And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.