So you remained at Kadesh for many days, the days that you spent there.
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.
- BSB For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.
- NKJV “So you remained in Kadesh many days, according to 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 20:1The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.
- Num 20:22They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
- Num 14:34After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
- Num 14:25Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”
- Judg 11:16–17but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went 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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