Kedesh

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This article is about Kedesh on the Israeli-Lebanese border, see also Kadesh or Kadesh (South of Israel) .

The ruins of the ancient village of Kedesh are located within the modern Kibbutz Malkiya on the Israeli-Lebanese border.

[edit] History

Kedesh was first documented in the Book of Joshua as a Canaanite citadel that was conquered by the Israelites under the leadership of Joshuah. Ownership for Kedesh was turned over, by lot, to the tribe of Naphtali and subsequently, at the command of God, Kedesh was set apart by Joshua as one of the Cities of Refuge along with Shechem and Kiriath Arba (Hebron) (Joshua 20:7).

In the 8th century BCE during the reign of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser III king of Assyria took Kedesh and deported its inhabitants to Assyria (2 Kings 15:29).

Later, in the 5th century BCE Kedesh may have become the capital for the Persian controlled, Tyrian administrated province of the Upper Galilee^[1].

In 259 BC Kedesh was mentioned by Zenon, a traveling merchant from Egypt^[2].

Between 145 BC and 143 BC Kedesh (Cades) was overthrown by Jonathan Maccabeus in his fight against the Seleucid king Demetrius I Soter ^[3] ^[4]. It remains abandoned until this day. Tel Kedesh continues to be excavated by the University of Michigan.

In the Book of Judges, the great oak tree in Zaanaim is stated to be near Kedesh (Judges 4:11).

Qadas
Kedesh: the name of the Unmarried mother's maternity home at Kew, Victoria, Australia, where young girls were sent and housed until they had their babies. Kedesh was an arm of the Mission of St James & St John [St Kilda Road, Melbourne] which was an arm of the Anglican Church Australia that came under the ArchDiocese of Ballarat [Victoria]. Kedesh operated in conjunction with Deaconness Neilson, employee of hte Anglican Church and the Almoner of the Queen Victoria Hospital where young girls aged from 14 and 15 years were frequently sent alone by taxi at night from Kedesh to the Queen Victoria Hospital to give birth to their babies which would then be removed from them - oftne against the natural mother's will - and gifted to the promised persons frequently the upper eschelons of the church. Later in life the Mission of St James and St John underwent a name changing, thus called Anglicare and as such exonerated themselves of all fiduciary responsibility.

^ Berlin, Andrea and Herbert, Sharon (2005). "Life and Death on the Israel-Lebanon Border". Biblical Archaeology Review 31 (5), 34-43.
^ Papyrus Cairo Zenon I 59.004
^ 1 Maccabees 11:63-74 (text)
^ Antiquities of the Jews 13.154-62; The Wars of the Jews 2.459, 4.104.

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