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Following a domestic revolt in Babylon in 594 BC, the new king of Judah, Zedekiah, organised an anti-Babylonian meeting supported by Egypt in Jerusalem in which Ammon, Edom, Moab, Sidon and Tyre participated, and to which the Qedarites were also aligned.
Qedar is mentioned in the Book of Genesis as being one of Ishmael's twelve children alongside Nebaioth. [1] In the Books of Chronicles, Qedar is regarded as being the second son of Ishmael with Nebaioth being the firstborn. [2]
The Qedarite Kingdom was a tribal confederation that arose in the deserts of the Levant and Northern Arabia round the 8th century BCE , controlling territory...
The kingdom's female rulers have been referred to as 'queens of Aribi'. Following the destruction of the Neo-Assyrian empire in 612 BC, the Kedarites enjoyed the resultant power vacuum in the sixth century BC, controlling a large swathe of territory between the Sinai and the Persian Gulf.
Qedar was a group of nomadic Arabs who lived in the desert of Syria, Iraq, Saudi-Arabia, and Jordan. They were often in conflict with the Assyrians and the Babylonians, and had a religious center in Duma.
The Qedarites (also Kedarites/Cedarenes, Cedar/Kedar/Qedar, and Kingdom of Qedar) were a largely nomadic, ancient Arab tribal confederation. Described as "the most organized of the Northern Arabian tribes", at the peak of its power in the 6th century BC it controlled a large region between the Persian Gulf and the Sinai Peninsula .
The city is named after the biblical figure Qedar, who was the progenitor of the Qedarite tribal confederation of North Arabia and the son of Ishmael. Qedar is revered in the Islamic traditions as an ancestor of the Islamic prophet Muhammad .
