Isaiah 19:11
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
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 thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
Numbers 13:22And they ascended by the south, and came to 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 leadeth counselors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
Psalms 73:22So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
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 →