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 journeyed to the king with oil and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far off, and sent down even to Sheol.
2 Kings 17:4
But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.
Hosea 7:11
Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.

Zoan

Isaiah 19:11
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?
Numbers 13:22
They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Ezekiel 30:14
I will make Pathros a desolation and will set fire to Zoan and will execute judgments on Thebes.

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