What is a chadr?

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Updated: 9/18/2023

A long cloth used by mostly islamic women to wrap around their heads and use as a head cover.

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First temple of Jews was destroyed by?

Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean destroyed the first Temple of the Jews in 586 BC. (King Solomon built it in circa 950 BC). Some Jews returned to Canaan-Israel about 100 years after its destruction (circa 480 BC) and built a second temple which the Romans destroyed in 70 AD on the same day of the year as Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the first temple.Nebuchadnezzar is alternatively named Nebuchadrezzar in the Bible. The difference in the two names is the 'chadn' in the first and 'chadr' in the second. Actually, when one looks closely at the various entries for this king in the Hebrew text of the Jewish Biblical account, one finds several different spellings mainly regarding vowels. But the English translators generally ignore these slight differences. The two main differences, which English translators did transliterate for modern readers, actually enable us to learn something even more important about this king.In Hebrew and Phoenician the letters 'r' and 'd', in their respective alphabets, are quite similar. It seems the scribes occasionally confused these letters. That would be especially likely when Jewish scribes looking at a text in Phoenician where "Nebuchardezzar" was written correctly then accidentally recopied it in Hebrew as "Nebuchadrezzar". Thus Nebuchardezzar is actually the correct rendering. But who is Nebuchardezzar? Nebo or Nebu means the planet Mercury (Hermes in Greek). Zzar or Tzar (Tsar) means "king". That leaves us with Nebo's King of the Chards. The Chards are the Kurds. Thus we could say "Nebuchadnezzar King of the ancient Kurds" destroyed Solomon's Temple. That also means today's Kurds are the descendants of the ancient Chaldeans (or the Kasdim in the Hebrew texts). That's because the Bible records Nebuchadnezzar-Nebuchadrezzar as "King of Chaldean Babylon". Modern Israelis and Jews do not blame the Kurds for destroying their temple. They acknowledged then and today that God allowed the Kurds (Chaldeans) to do this because of the idolatory of the ancient Jews at the time. This is all recorded in the Bible and subsequent Jewish generations of scribes have faithfully preserved this history for us including Nebuchadnezzar's conversion to belief in the God of Israel. That is one reason why the Jewish Bible is so reliable. We can trust the Jewish record, minor errors apart. Even then, the minor errors sometimes explain other problems. So we can win both ways in a sense.

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