Isaiah 19:13

Noph; another chief city, and one of the king's seats, so called also Jeremiah 2:16, Jeremiah 44:1; called also Moph in the Hebrew text, Hosea 9:6; and by other and later authors, Memphis. Even they that are the stay, Heb. even the corner, or the corner-stone, which is the chief support of the building. Whereby he may design either,

1. The king; or,

2. Some eminent statesman of that age, upon, whose counsels both king and people depended; or

3. Their chief counsellors, the, singular number being then put collectively, as it is in many other places. The tribes of the provinces, which he calls by a title borrowed from the Hebrews, in whose language he spake and wrote this prophecy.