Library Home>Authors>James P. Boyd>Boyd's Bible Dictionary: Z>Zoan (#111867)

Zoan

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: Z By: James P. Boyd

Listen to This Article

(departure). An ancient city of Lower Egypt, the Tanis of the Greeks and the San of modern times. It occupied a highly strategic position on the east side of the Tanitic branch of the Nile, and was built seven years before the very ancient city of Hebron (Num. 13:22²²And 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.) (Numbers 13:22)). Isaiah mentions the “princes of Zoan” (Isa. 19:11-13; 30:4¹¹Surely the princes of Zoan 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? ¹²Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 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. (Isaiah 19:11‑13)
⁴For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. (Isaiah 30:4)), and Ezekiel foretells its fate by fire (Ezek. 30:14¹⁴And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No. (Ezekiel 30:14)).

Click here to show subject links in the text for more information.

Previous Article

Boyd's Bible Dictionary: Z

• Zoan

• Zoba, Zobah