For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.
Parallel translations
- WEB So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained.
- KJV So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
- NKJV “So you remained in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you spent there.
- NASB So you remained at Kadesh for many days, the days that you spent there.
- NLT So you stayed there at Kadesh for a long time.
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Quick answer
Israel remained at Kadesh for a long time. The verse marks the beginning of the long delay caused by their unbelief.
Overview
The extended stay at Kadesh signals the start of the wilderness years that resulted from Israel's refusal to enter the land. The lingering is a quiet monument to the cost of unbelief. Time that could have been spent enjoying the inheritance was instead spent in delay. This closes the chapter's account of failure and sets the stage for God's renewed leading, ultimately pointing to the rest secured only in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Num 20:1In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
- Num 20:22After they had set out from Kadesh, the whole congregation of Israel came to Mount Hor.
- Num 14:34In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
- Num 14:25Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
- Judg 11:16–17But when Israel came up out of Egypt, they traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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