Kedesh

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Kedesh
     sanctuary. (1.) A place in the extreme south of Judah (Josh.
     15:23). Probably the same as Kadesh-barnea (q.v.).
     
       (2.) A city of Issachar (1 Chr. 6:72). Possibly Tell Abu
     Kadeis, near Lejjun.


     
       (3.) A "fenced city" of Naphtali, one of the cities of refuge
     (Josh. 19:37; Judg. 4:6). It was assigned to the Gershonite
     Levites (Josh. 21:32). It was originally a Canaanite royal city
     (Josh. 12:22), and was the residence of Barak (Judg. 4:6); and
     here he and Deborah assembled the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali
     before the commencement of the conflict with Sisera in the plain
     of Esdraelon, "for Jehovah among the mighty" (9, 10). In the
     reign of Pekah it was taken by Tiglath-Pileser (2 Kings 15:29).
     It was situated near the "plain" (rather "the oak") of Zaanaim,
     and has been identified with the modern Kedes, on the hills
     fully four miles north-west of Lake El Huleh.
     
       It has been supposed by some that the Kedesh of the narrative,
     where Barak assembled his troops, was not the place in Upper
     Galilee so named, which was 30 miles distant from the plain of
     Esdraelon, but Kedish, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, 12
     miles from Tabor.