Isaiah 19:11

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Isaiah 19:11

The princes of Zoan are complete fools;
Pharaoh’s wisest advisers give stupid advice!
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one of the wise,
a student of eastern kings”?

Numbers 13:22

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were living. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

1 Kings 4:30

Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.

Psalm 78:43

when He performed His miraculous signs in Egypt
and His wonders in the region of Zoan.

Isaiah 30:4

For though his princes are at Zoan
and his messengers reach as far as Hanes,

Acts 7:22

So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his speech and actions.

Genesis 41:38-39

Then Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find anyone like this, a man who has God’s spirit in him?”

Psalm 78:12

He worked wonders in the sight of their fathers
in the land of Egypt, the region of Zoan.

Job 5:12-13

He frustrates the schemes of the crafty
so that they achieve no success.

Job 12:17

He leads counselors away barefoot
and makes judges go mad.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations;
He thwarts the plans of the peoples.

Psalm 73:22

I was stupid and didn’t understand;
I was an unthinking animal toward You.

Psalm 92:6

A stupid person does not know,
a fool does not understand this:

Proverbs 30:2

I am more stupid than any other man,
and I lack man’s ability to understand.

Isaiah 19:3

Egypt’s spirit will be disturbed within it,
and I will frustrate its plans.
Then they will seek idols, ghosts,
spirits of the dead, and spiritists.

Isaiah 19:13

The princes of Zoan have been fools;
the princes of Memphis are deceived.
Her tribal chieftains have led Egypt astray.

Isaiah 29:14

therefore I will again confound these people
with wonder after wonder.
The wisdom of their wise men will vanish,
and the understanding of the perceptive will be hidden.

Isaiah 44:25

who destroys the omens of the false prophets
and makes fools of diviners;
who confounds the wise
and makes their knowledge foolishness;

Jeremiah 10:14

Everyone is stupid and ignorant.
Every goldsmith is put to shame
by his carved image,
for his cast images are a lie;
there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 10:21

For the shepherds are stupid:
they don’t seek the Lord.
Therefore they have not prospered,
and their whole flock is scattered.

Jeremiah 49:7

About Edom, this is what the Lord of Hosts says:

Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?
Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom rotted away?

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster after disaster will come,
and there will be rumor after rumor.
Then they will seek a vision from a prophet,
but instruction will perish from the priests
and counsel from the elders.

Ezekiel 30:14

I will make Pathros desolate,
set fire to Zoan,
and execute judgments on Thebes.

1 Corinthians 1:19-20

For it is written:

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and I will set aside the understanding of the experts.

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Summary

Isaiah 19:11

Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

The princes

Zoan

Brutish

I am

Genesis 41:38

1 Kings 4:30

Acts 7:22

General references

Bible References

The princes

Egypt’s spirit will be disturbed within it,
and I will frustrate its plans.
Then they will seek idols, ghosts,
spirits of the dead, and spiritists.

therefore I will again confound these people
with wonder after wonder.
The wisdom of their wise men will vanish,
and the understanding of the perceptive will be hidden.

who destroys the omens of the false prophets
and makes fools of diviners;
who confounds the wise
and makes their knowledge foolishness;

He frustrates the schemes of the crafty
so that they achieve no success.

He leads counselors away barefoot
and makes judges go mad.

The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations;
He thwarts the plans of the peoples.

About Edom, this is what the Lord of Hosts says:

Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?
Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom rotted away?

Disaster after disaster will come,
and there will be rumor after rumor.
Then they will seek a vision from a prophet,
but instruction will perish from the priests
and counsel from the elders.

For it is written:

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and I will set aside the understanding of the experts.

Zoan

For though his princes are at Zoan
and his messengers reach as far as Hanes,

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were living. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

He worked wonders in the sight of their fathers
in the land of Egypt, the region of Zoan.

I will make Pathros desolate,
set fire to Zoan,
and execute judgments on Thebes.

Brutish

I was stupid and didn’t understand;
I was an unthinking animal toward You.

A stupid person does not know,
a fool does not understand this:

I am more stupid than any other man,
and I lack man’s ability to understand.

Everyone is stupid and ignorant.
Every goldsmith is put to shame
by his carved image,
for his cast images are a lie;
there is no breath in them.

I am

Then Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find anyone like this, a man who has God’s spirit in him?”

Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.

So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his speech and actions.

General references

The frogs will come up on you, your people, and all your officials.”

For God has deprived her of wisdom;
He has not endowed her with understanding.

Without guidance, people fall,
but with many counselors there is deliverance.

For it is written:

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and I will set aside the understanding of the experts.