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 its midst; and I will destroy its counsel: and they shall seek after the idols, and the charmers, and the mediums, and the wizards.

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

That frustrates the omens of the liars, and makes diviners mad; that turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their plans.

He leads counselors away plundered, and makes the judges fools.

The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing: he makes the devices of the people of none effect.

Concerning Edom, thus says the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? has counsel perished from the prudent? has 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 ambassadors came to Hanes.

And they ascended through the South, and came unto 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 you.

A senseless man knows not; neither does a fool understand this.

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

Every man is senseless in his knowledge: every goldsmith 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 unto his servants, Can we find such a one 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 you, and upon your people, and upon all your servants.

Because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has 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.