Numbers 13:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Kadesh; so called by way of abbreviation, which is frequent in Hebrew names, for Kadesh-barnea, Deuteronomy 1:19, which some rashly confound with Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, Numbers 20:1, Numbers 27:14 33:36; into which they came not till the fortieth year after their coming out of Egypt, as appears from Numbers 33:37,38 whereas they were in this Kadesh in the second year, and before they received the sentence of their forty years abode in the wilderness.

Numbers 13:26

26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.