Kedemoth

Kedemoth in the Topics

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.

Named in the Bible

4 verses

  • Deuteronomy 2:26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
  • Joshua 13:18 And Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
  • Joshua 21:37 Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.
  • 1 Chronicles 6:79 Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs:

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.