Biblical places
Kadesh Barnea
Where Israel spent much of their forty years in the wilderness after the failed spy mission into Canaan, and where Miriam died and Moses struck water from the rock. Widely identified with Tell el-Qudeirat on the border of the Negev and the Sinai Peninsula.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- High
- Tell el-Qudeirat (Ein el-Qudeirat)
- 30.6481, 34.4228
OpenBible supports Ain el-Qudeirat at 90% confidence, closely matching Wikipedia's coordinates; Ein Qedeis is also listed as a minority theory.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Numbers 32:8
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
Deuteronomy 1:2
(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)
Joshua 10:41
And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
Numbers 34:4
And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon:
Deuteronomy 1:19
And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
Joshua 14:6
Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.
Deuteronomy 2:14
And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
Joshua 14:7
Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.