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 was emptied in its midst, and its counsel I will destroy: and they sought to the vanities and to the mutterers, and to the necromancers, and to the wizards.

For this, behold me adding to be wonderful with this people, dealing wonderfully and being a wonder: and the wisdom of their wise perished, and the understanding of their understanding ones shall be hid.

Bringing to naught the signs at vain boasters, and he will make those divining, foolish; turning back the wise backward, and he will frustrate their knowledge.

Bringing to nought the purposes of the crafty, and their hand shall not do an undertaking.

Leading away counselors stripped off and he will make foolish the judges

Jehovah made vain the counsel of the nations: he brought the purposes of the peoples to nought

To Edom, thus said Jehovah of armies, Is wisdom no more in Teman? did counsel perish from the discerning? was their wisdom poured out?

And ruin upon ruin shall come, and report shall be to report; and they sought a vision from the prophet; and law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the old men.

For it has been written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and put away the understanding of the intelligent.

Zoan

For his chiefs were in Zoan, and his messengers will reach to Hanes.

And they will go up by the south and will come to Hebron; and these Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, children of Anak: and Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt

Before their fathers he did a wonder in the land of Egypt, the field of loading.

And I made Pathros desolate, and I gave fire in Zoan, and I did judgments in No.

Brutish

And I stupid, and I shall not know, and I was a beast with thee.

A brutish man shall not know, and a fool shall not understand this.

For I am brutish more than man, and not the understanding of a man to me.

Every man was brutish from knowledge: every founder was ashamed from his carved image; for his molten image a falsehood, and no spirit in them.

I am

And Pharaoh will say to his servants, Shall we find such as this man which has the spirit of God in him?

And the wisdom of Solomon will be multiplied above the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and above all the wisdom of Egypt

And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was powerful in words and in works.

General references

And upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants shall the frogs go up.

For God caused her to forget wisdom, and he divided not to her in understanding.

In no guidance the people will fall: and salvation in a multitude of counseling.

For it has been written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and put away the understanding of the intelligent.