- Kedesh
:"This article is about Kedesh on the Israeli-Lebanese border, see also
Kadesh orKadesh (South of Israel) .The ruins of the ancient village of Kedesh are located within the modern "Kibbutz Malkiya" on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
History
Kedesh was first documented in the
Book of Joshua as aCanaan ite citadel that was conquered by theIsraelites under the leadership ofJoshuah . Ownership for Kedesh was turned over, by lot, to the tribe ofNaphtali and subsequently, at the command ofGod , Kedesh was set apart byJoshua as one of theCities of Refuge along withShechem and Kiriath Arba (Hebron ) ().ee also
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Qadas
* Kedesh: the name of the Unmarried mother's maternity home at Kew, Victoria, Australia, where young girls were sent and housed until they had their babies. Kedesh was an arm of the Mission of St James & St John [St Kilda Road, Melbourne] which was an arm of the Anglican Church Australia that came under the ArchDiocese of Ballarat [Victoria] . Kedesh operated in conjunction with Deaconness Neilson, employee of hte Anglican Church and the Almoner of the Queen Victoria Hospital where young girls aged from 14 and 15 years were frequently sent alone by taxi at night from Kedesh to the Queen Victoria Hospital to give birth to their babies which would then be removed from them - oftne against the natural mother's will - and gifted to the promised persons frequently the upper eschelons of the church. Later in life the Mission of St James and St John underwent a name changing, thus called Anglicare and as such exonerated themselves of all fiduciary responsibility.External links
* [http://www.umich.edu/~kelseydb/Excavation/Kedesh/history.html History of Kedesh]
References
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