The site is unknown, but the use of the name "wilderness of Zin" shows it must have been near Kadesh in the extreme south of Palestine (Num. 13: 21; Num. 20: 1; Num. 27: 14; Num. 33: 36; Num. 34: 3-4; Deut. 32: 51; Josh. 15: 1,3).