Joshua 14:6-7

14:6 The men of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said about you and me to Moses, the man of God, at Kadesh Barnea. ¹  14:7 I was forty years old when Moses, the Lord’s servant, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land and I brought back to him an honest report. ² 

Numbers 13:26

The Spies’ Reports

13:26 They came back ³  to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. ⁴  They reported ⁵  to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land.

Numbers 32:8

32:8 Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

Numbers 34:4

34:4 and then the border will turn from the south to the Scorpion Ascent, ⁶  continue to Zin, and then its direction ⁷  will be from the south to Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and pass over to Azmon.

Deuteronomy 9:23

9:23 And when he ⁸  sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, “Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the Lord your God ⁹  and would neither believe nor obey him.

¹ tn Heb “You know the word which the Lord spoke to Moses, the man of God, because of me and because of you in Kadesh Barnea.”

² tn Heb “and I brought back to him a word just as [was] in my heart.”

³ tn The construction literally has “and they went and they entered,” which may be smoothed out as a verbal hendiadys, the one verb modifying the other.

⁴ sn Kadesh is Ain Qadeis, about 50 miles (83 km) south of Beer Sheba. It is called Kadesh-barnea in Num 32:8.

⁵ tn Heb “They brought back word”; the verb is the Hiphil preterite of שׁוּב (shuv).

⁶ tn Or “the Ascent of Scorpions” (עַקְרַבִּים [’aqrabbim] means “scorpions” in Hebrew).

⁷ tn Heb “its going forth,” or the way it runs.

⁸ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

⁹ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord your God,” that is, against the commandment that he had spoken.