The Southern Border of Judah from Kadesh-barnea Through Karka to the Brook of Egypt

Joshua 15:1-4 traces the southern boundary of Judah's tribal inheritance: "And it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: from thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea." This was the strategic frontier arc separating the Promised Land from the Sinai wilderness — the same line Israel had originally aimed at from Kadesh before the spy rebellion delayed the conquest forty years.

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