Isaiah 19:11
Only, the princes of Zoan [are] fools, || The counsel of the wise ones of the counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am a son of the wise, a son of kings of antiquity?”
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In Context
10And its foundations have been struck, || All making wages [are] afflicted in soul.
Cross References
Exodus 8:4indeed, on you, and on your people, and on all your servants the frogs go up.”
Numbers 13:22and they go up by the south, and come to Hebron, and there [are] Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, children of Anak (and Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt),
1 Kings 5:10And Hiram is giving cedar-trees and fir-trees to Solomon—all his desire,
Job 12:17Causing counselors to go away [as] a spoil, || Indeed, He makes fools of judges.
Psalms 73:22And I am brutish, and do not know. I have been a beast with You.
Psalms 78:43When 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 →