Zin Much of southern Palestine was a dry region known as the Negeb. Within this region lay the barren Wilderness of Zin. It lay south-west of the Dead Sea, between the Dead Sea and Kadesh-barnea (Numbers 1:20-2; Numbers 27:14; Numbers 33:36; Numbers 34:3-5). (For map and other details See Palestine, sub-heading ‘Negeb’.)