So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
The long abiding at Kadesh belongs to the account of Israel's refusal to enter the promised land and the consequences that followed that refusal. The first chapter of Deuteronomy sets forth the reason the Lord would not bring the adult generation that had come out of Egypt into the promised land. That reason was disobedience, in that they did not wholly follow Him. Therefore they were made to wander in the wilderness until that generation died.
The long abiding at Kadesh belongs to the account of Israel's refusal to enter the promised land and the consequences that followed that refusal. The first chapter of Deuteronomy sets forth the reason the Lord would not bring the adult generation that had come out of Egypt into the promised land. That reason was disobedience, in that they did not wholly follow Him. Therefore they were made to wander in the wilderness until that generation died.