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Isa. 19:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Surely the princes of Zoanx 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?

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Num. 13:22• ²²And they went up by the south, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt. (Num. 13:22)

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the princes.

Isa. 19:3,13• ³And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it, and I will destroy the counsel thereof; and they shall seek unto the idols and unto the conjurers, and unto the necromancers, and unto the soothsayers.
¹³The princes of Zoan are become foolish, the princes of Noph are deceived; and the corner-stones of its tribes have caused Egypt to err. (Isa. 19:3,13)

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Isa. 29:14• ¹⁴therefore, behold, I will proceed to do marvellously with this people, to do marvellously, even with wonder, and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hid. (Isa. 29:14)

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Isa. 44:25• ²⁵--he that frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; (Isa. 44:25)

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Job 5:12‑13• ¹²He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.
¹³He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong: (Job 5:12‑13)

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Job 12:17• ¹⁷He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools; (Job 12:17)

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Psa. 33:10• ¹⁰Jehovah frustrateth the counsel of the nations; he maketh the thoughts of the peoples of none effect. (Psa. 33:10)

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Jer. 49:7• ⁷Concerning Edom. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Is there no more wisdom in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom spent? (Jer. 49:7)

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Ezek. 7:26• ²⁶Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; and they shall seek a vision from a prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders. (Ezek. 7:26)

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1 Cor. 1:19‑20• ¹⁹For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones.
²⁰Where is the wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? (1 Cor. 1:19‑20)

Zoan.

Isa. 30:4• ⁴For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. (Isa. 30:4)

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Num. 13:22• ²²And they went up by the south, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt. (Num. 13:22)

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Psa. 78:12,43• ¹²In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.
⁴³How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan; (Psa. 78:12,43)

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Ezek. 30:14• ¹⁴And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgment in No. (Ezek. 30:14)

brutish.

Psa. 73:22• ²²Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee. (Psa. 73:22)

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Psa. 92:6• ⁶A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it. (Psa. 92:6)

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Prov. 30:2• ²Truly *I* am more stupid than any one; and I have not a man's intelligence. (Prov. 30:2)

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Jer. 10:14,21• ¹⁴Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
²¹For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not sought Jehovah; therefore have they not acted wisely, and all their flock is scattered. (Jer. 10:14,21)

I am.

Gen. 41:38‑39• ³⁸And Pharaoh said to his bondmen, Shall we find one as this, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
³⁹And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has made all this known to thee, there is none so discreet and wise as thou. (Gen. 41:38‑39)

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1 Kings 4:30• ³⁰And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. (1 Kings 4:30)

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Acts 7:22• ²²And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds. (Acts 7:22)

• {v.11-13} The princes of Zoan did become fools, though in the days of Moses long before “the wisdom of Egypt” was highly regarded. (“Isaiah 19” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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They are but fools, the princes of Zoanf, the wise counsellors of Pharaoh: their counsel is become senseless. How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

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Tanis. see ch. 30.4.