Isaiah 19:11
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say all of you unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
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10And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
Cross References
Exodus 8:4And the frogs shall come up both on you, and upon your people, and upon all your servants.
Numbers 13:22And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
1 Kings 5:10So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire.
Job 12:17He leads counsellors away spoiled, and makes the judges fools.
Psalms 73:22So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before you.
Psalms 78:43How he had wrought 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 →