Isaiah 19:11
They are but fools, the princes of Zoan, the wise counsellors of Pharaoh: [their] counsel is become senseless. How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
10And her pillars shall be broken in pieces, and all workers for hire shall be sad of soul.
Cross References
Exodus 8:4And the frogs shall come up both upon thee and upon thy people, and upon all thy bondmen.
Numbers 13:22And they went up by the south, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
1 Kings 5:10So Hiram gave Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees [according to] all his desire.
Job 12:17He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools;
Psalms 73:22Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was [as] a beast with thee.
Psalms 78:43How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles 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 →