Deuteronomy 2:26

The wilderness of Kedemoth (comp. Numbers 21:13 ); so named from the town of Kedemoth, an old Amorite town, on the right bank of the Upper Arnon; at a later period, a Levitical city in the tribe of Reuben ( Joshua 13:18 ; Joshua 21:37 ; 1 Chronicles 6:79 ). The name (from קֶדֶם , the east), signifying eastern parts, indicates that it was situated on the eastern boundary of the Amorite region, so that the desert named from it must have bordered on the great Arabian desert; it may have been on what is now the Derb cf. Haj, or Pilgrims' Road, probably, at Kal'at Balua.