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Location and Setting

• Arad was located eighteen miles east of Beersheba and thirty-three miles south of Jerusalem in the eastern Negev.
• Arad was situated on the end of a ridge that marked the southern border of the Hill Country of Judah.

Historical and Biblical Significance

• When the Israelites rebelled at Kadesh-barnea, rejecting the good report of Joshua and Caleb about the land they had explored, God caused them to wander in the desert for thirty-eight years (Numbers 14). Near the end of this period, the king of Arad heard that the Israelites were approaching. He attacked them, taking some of them captive (Num 21:1).
• The Israelites cried out to the Lord and He delivered the city into their hands. Israel completely destroyed the surrounding cities and renamed the area Hormah (Num 21:2-3).
• The Kenites, descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, settled in the area of Arad after the Conquest (Judg 1:16).
• Archaeologists have discovered remains of a large temple at Arad. It was probably built by Israelites in the eighth century B.C. Steps led up to the alter in violation of God’s prohibition of this kind of construction (Exod 20:26).

Bibliography

1. Anderson, H.G. "Arad" The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible. Ed. Merrill C. Tenney. 5 vols. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1976.
2. Millard, A.R. "Arad" The New Bible Dictionary. 2^nd ed. Ed. J.D. Douglas. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1982.
3. Monson, James M. Student Map Manual. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1979.