Isaiah 19:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of her, and I will destroy her counsel: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

Therefore behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even an astonishing work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

He leadeth counselors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to naught: he maketh the devices of the people of no effect.

Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? hath counsel perished from the prudent? hath their wisdom vanished?

Mischief 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 elders.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

Zoan

For his princes were at Zoan, and his embassadors came to Hanes.

And 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.)

Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.

Brutish

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.

Every 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.

I am

And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find such a man as this is, a man in whom the spirit of God is?

And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

General references

And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.

Because God hath withheld wisdom from her, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.