Place · City
Kedemoth
Named in 4 verses across 3 books, first in Deuteronomy 2:26.
In the Bible
All 4 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 2:26
So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,
Joshua
- Joshua 13:18
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
- Joshua 21:37
Kedemoth, and Mephaath—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 6:79
Kedemoth, and Mephaath, together with their pasturelands.
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
Beginnings; easternmost, a city of Reuben, assigned to the Levites of the family of Merari (Josh. 13:18). It lay not far north-east of Dibon-gad, east of the Dead Sea.