Kedesh
Sign in to saveKedesh (alternate spellings: Qedesh, Cadesh, Cydessa) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite settlement in Upper Galilee, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. Its remains are located in Tel Kedesh, northeast of the modern Kibbutz Malkiya in Israel on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Tel Kedesh
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Cydessa
- Ancient site.image
- File:תל קדש 2.jpeg
- Ancient site.caption
- Tel Kedesh
- Ancient site.map_type
- Israel#Israel northeast
- Ancient site.map_size
- 250
- Ancient site.location
- Northern District, Israel
- Ancient site.region
- Upper Galilee
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.condition
- In ruins
- Ancient site.public_access
- yes
- Settlement.image_skyline
- קדש נתפלי - מראה קדש נפתלי בגליל העליון-JNF027645.jpeg
- Settlement.caption
- Qadas 1939
- Settlement.name
- Qadas
- Settlement.native_name
- قدس
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.other_name
- Kades, Kadas, Cadasa
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
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Article
18 sectionsContents
- History
- Early Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Assyrian period
- Persian period
- Hellenistic period
- Roman period
- Kedesh of Naphtali
- Excavation project at Tel Kedesh
- Middle Ages
- Ottoman era
- British Mandate era
- 1948 war, and aftermath
- Other
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Kedesh (alternate spellings: Qedesh, Cadesh, Cydessa) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite settlement in Upper Galilee, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. Its remains are located in Tel Kedesh, northeast of the modern Kibbutz Malkiya in Israel on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
The settlement is first documented in the Book of Joshua as a Canaanite citadel conquered by the Israelites and designated as a Levitical city and City of Refuge. Jewish tradition holds that Deborah, Barak and Jael were buried near Kedesh.