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.
They ... came ... to Kadesh х Qaadeeshaah (H6946); Septuagint, Kadees] - an important encampment of the Israelites, after having marched up the Arabah, the fearful desert of sand that extends from the head of the Elanitic Gulf to the Dead Sea. But its exact situation is not certainly known, nor is it determined whether it is the same or a different place from Kadesh-barnea. It is supposed to be identical with Ain-el-Weibeh, a famous spring on the eastern side of the desert (Robinson), and also with Petra (Stanley). A different site, however, has, with so high a degree of probability as amounts almost to certainty that it is the true one, been assigned to Kadesh by Mr. Rowlands, who places it at Ain-el-Kadeis, near the southern extremity of the Negeb, 'lying to the east of the highest part of Jebel Halal, toward its northern extremity, about twelve miles to the East-southeast of Moilahhi (Hagar's well), or, more exactly, near the point at which the longitude of Khulasah intersects the latitude of Ain-el-Weibeh' (Williams' 'Holy City,' p. 488; Kurtz, 'History of the Old Covenant,' vol. 3:, p. 217; 'Jour. Sac. Lit.,' July, 1848, pp. 90-96; Winer's 'Real Worterbuch;' Drew's 'Scripture Lands,' p. 76, note).