Isaiah 19:11

The rulers of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How will ye say to Pharaoh, I am the son of wise men, the son of ancient kings?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

In Context

10And the pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire [shall be] grieved in soul.

12Where then are thy wise men? And let them tell thee now, and let them know what LORD of hosts has purposed concerning Egypt.

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Cross References

Exodus 8:4And the frogs shall come up both upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.

Numbers 13:22And they went up by the South, and came to Hebron. And Ahaiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

1 Kings 5:10So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.

Job 12:17He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes judges fools.

Psalms 73:22So I was brutish, and ignorant. I was a beast before thee.

Psalms 78:43how he set his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan,

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 19:2-18

The Doom of Egypt. ( b. c. 710.) 1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. 2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel… Read the whole commentary →

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