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THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION

Isaiah 19:18
18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
KJV

destruction: OT:2775
cherec (kheh'-res); or (with a directive enclitic) charcah (khar'saw); from an unused root meaning to scrape; the itch; also [perhaps from the mediating idea of OT:2777] the sun:
KJV - itch, sun.

OT:2777
charcuwth (khar-sooth'); from OT:2775 (apparently in the sense of a red tile used for scraping); a potsherd, i.e. (by implication) a pottery; the name of a gate at Jerusalem:
KJV - east.

Bullinger: DESTRUCTION => RIGHTEOUSNESS (The SUN)

Destruction. The primitive reading was doubtless ha-zedek = “righteousness”, which the Sept. simply translates, ásed??. From a desire not to compete with “Jerusalem”, which bore this name (Isaiah 1:26):

It was altered to cheres, which in Chaldee = “the sun”, or in Greek = “Heliopolis”, which is the reading in many MSS., two early printed editions, and the margins of the A.V. and R.V. But when the temple at Jerusalem was cleansed and restored, the temple at Heliopolis was deemed schismatic; and, by altering one letter ( = CH, for = H), cheres (the sun) was altered to heres (destruction). Hence the present reading of the current Hebrew text.
(from the Companion Bible)