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

The Egyptians will panic, and I will confuse their strategy. They will seek guidance from the idols and from the spirits of the dead, from the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, and from the magicians.

Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people -- an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations."

who frustrates the omens of the empty talkers and humiliates the omen readers, who overturns the counsel of the wise men and makes their advice seem foolish,

He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!

He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.

The Lord frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.

The Lord who rules over all spoke about Edom. "Is wisdom no longer to be found in Teman? Can Edom's counselors not give her any good advice? Has all of their wisdom turned bad?

Disaster after disaster will come, and one rumor after another. They will seek a vision from a prophet; priestly instruction will disappear, along with counsel from the elders.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent."

Zoan

Though his officials are in Zoan and his messengers arrive at Hanes,

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

He did amazing things in the sight of their ancestors, in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

I will desolate Pathros, I will ignite a fire in Zoan, and I will execute judgments on Thebes.

Brutish

I was ignorant and lacked insight; I was as senseless as an animal before you.

The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.

Surely I am more brutish than any other human being, and I do not have human understanding;

All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

I am

So Pharaoh asked his officials, "Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?"

Solomon was wiser than all the men of the east and all the sages of Egypt.

So Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.

General references

Frogs will come up against you, your people, and all your servants."'"

For God deprived her of wisdom, and did not impart understanding to her.

When there is no guidance a nation falls, but there is success in the abundance of counselors.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent."