Isaiah 19:11

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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 it, and I will destroy the counsel thereof; and they shall seek unto the idols and unto the conjurers, and unto the necromancers, and unto the soothsayers.

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do marvellously with this people, to do marvellously, even with wonder, and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hid.

he 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, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.

He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools;

Jehovah frustrateth the counsel of the nations; he maketh the thoughts of the peoples of none effect.

Concerning Edom. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Is there no more wisdom in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom spent?

Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; and they shall seek a vision from a 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 set aside the understanding of the understanding ones.

Zoan

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

And they went up by the south, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.

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

Brutish

Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee.

A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it.

Truly I am more stupid than any one; and I have not a man's intelligence.

Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

I am

And Pharaoh said to his bondmen, Shall we find one as this, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?

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

And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.

General references

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

For +God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding.

Where no advice is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones.