Isaiah 19:11

The princes of Zoan are completely foolish. The advice of the wisest advisors of Pharaoh has become senseless. 1 How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of wise men, a son of ancient kings?” 1

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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

10The cloth workers of Egypt will be crushed; all who work for hire will be grieved within themselves. 1

12Where then are your wise men? 1 Let them tell you and make known what Yahweh of hosts plans concerning Egypt. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 8:4The frogs will attack you, your people, and all your servants.”'”

Numbers 13:22They went up from the Negev and arrived at Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, clans descended from Anak, were there. Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

1 Kings 5:10So Hiram gave Solomon all the timber of cedar and fir that he desired.

Job 12:17He leads counselors away barefoot in sorrow; 1 he turns judges into fools. 1

Psalms 73:22I was ignorant and lacked insight; 1 I was like a senseless animal before you. 1

Psalms 78:43when he performed his terrifying signs in Egypt 1 and his wonders in the region of Zoan. 1

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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