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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 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.) (Num. 13:22)

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the princes.

Isa. 19:3,13• ³And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
¹³The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. (Isa. 19:3,13)

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Isa. 29:14• ¹⁴Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. (Isa. 29:14)

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Isa. 44:25• ²⁵That 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, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
¹³He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. (Job 5:12‑13)

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

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Psa. 33:10• ¹⁰The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. (Psa. 33:10)

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Jer. 49:7• ⁷Concerning Edom, thus saith the Lord of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? (Jer. 49:7)

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Ezek. 7:26• ²⁶Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. (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 will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
²⁰Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this 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 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.) (Num. 13:22)

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Psa. 78:12,43• ¹²Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
⁴³How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders 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 fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No. (Ezek. 30:14)

brutish.

Psa. 73:22• ²²So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. (Psa. 73:22)

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

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Prov. 30:2• ²Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. (Prov. 30:2)

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Jer. 10:14,21• ¹⁴Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
²¹For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. (Jer. 10:14,21)

I am.

Gen. 41:38‑39• ³⁸And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
³⁹And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art: (Gen. 41:38‑39)

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

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Acts 7:22• ²²And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in 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.