Isaiah 19:11
The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings?
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10And the makers of twisted thread will be crushed, and those who ... will be sad in heart.
Cross References
Exodus 8:4The frogs will come up over you and your people and all your servants.
Numbers 13:22They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living there. (Now the building of Hebron took place seven years before that of Zoan in Egypt.)
1 Kings 5:10So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of;
Job 12:17He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish;
Psalms 73:22As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.
Psalms 78:43How he had done 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 →