Isaiah 30:4

Warning Against Alliance With Egypt

³ “Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shame
And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.
⁴ “For their princes are at Zoan
And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.
⁵ “Everyone will be ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them,
Who are not for help or profit, but for shame and also for reproach.”

Egypt

Hanes

Zoan

Isaiah 19:11

The princes of Zoan are mere fools;
The advice of Pharaoh’s wisest advisers has become stupid.
How can you men say to Pharaoh,
“I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”?

Jeremiah 43:7

and they entered the land of Egypt (for they did not obey the voice of the Lord) and went in as far as Tahpanhes.

Numbers 13:22

When they had gone up into the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the descendants of Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

2 Kings 17:4

But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and had offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.

Isaiah 57:9

“You have journeyed to the king with oil
And increased your perfumes;
You have sent your envoys a great distance
And made them go down to Sheol.

Ezekiel 30:14

“I will make Pathros desolate,
Set a fire in Zoan
And execute judgments on Thebes.

Ezekiel 30:18

“In Tehaphnehes the day will be dark
When I break there the yoke bars of Egypt.
Then the pride of her power will cease in her;
A cloud will cover her,
And her daughters will go into captivity.

Hosea 7:11-12

So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without sense;
They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

Hosea 7:16

They turn, but not upward,
They are like a deceitful bow;
Their princes will fall by the sword
Because of the insolence of their tongue.
This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.