Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

His princes

Isaiah 57:9
You went to the king with oil
and multiplied your perfumes;
you sent your couriers far away
and sent them down even to Sheol.
2 Kings 17:4
But the king of Assyria discovered Hoshea’s conspiracy. He had sent envoys to So king of Egypt and had not paid tribute money to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested him and put him in prison.
Hosea 7:11
So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove;
they call to Egypt, and they go to Assyria.

Zoan

Isaiah 19:11
The princes of Zoan are complete fools;
Pharaoh’s wisest advisers give stupid advice!
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one of the wise,
a student of eastern kings”?
Numbers 13:22
They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were living. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
Ezekiel 30:14
I will make Pathros desolate,
set fire to Zoan,
and execute judgments on Thebes.

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