Isaiah 19:11
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings”?
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
10The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.
Cross References
Exodus 8:4The frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.”’”
Numbers 13:22They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, 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 cedar timber and cypress timber according to all his desire.
Job 12:17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
Psalms 73:22I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
Psalms 78:43how he set his signs in Egypt, 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 →