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Verse Isaiah 19:11. _THE COUNSEL OF THE WISE COUNSELLORS OF PHARAOH
IS_ _BECOME BRUTISH_ - "Have counselled a brutish counsel"] The
sentence as it now stands in the Hebrew, is imperfect: it wants the...
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SURELY THE PRINCES - The following verses, to Isaiah 19:16, are
designed to describe further the calamities that were coming upon
Egypt by a want of wisdom in their rulers. They would be unable to
dev...
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CHAPTER 19
The Burden of Egypt
1. _The judgment announced (Isaiah 19:1)_ 2. _Egypt blest with Israel
in the last days (Isaiah 19:16) _ Egypt has passed through many
judgments. Hundreds of years after...
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ISAIAH 19. ORACLE ON EGYPT. This is one of the most difficult Chapter
s in the book. It falls into two sections, Isaiah 19:1 and Isaiah
19:18. If Isaiah 19:1 is in the main from Isaiah, it probably re...
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ZOAN. See note on Isaiah 30:4.
FOOLS. Hebrew. _aval_. See note on Proverbs 1:7....
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_Surely … fools_ MERE FOOLS ARE THE PRINCES OF ZOAN. Zoan (Tanis,
between the two most easterly mouths of the Nile), an ancient city
(Numbers 13:22), had played an important part in Egyptian history....
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The stultification of Pharaoh's advisers....
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SURELY THE PRINCES OF ZOAN ARE FOOLS, &C.— _Surely the princes of
Zoan are fools; the very wisest of Pharaoh's counsellors: counsel is
become brutish. How will you boast unto Pharaoh, I am the son of...
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CHAPTER NINETEEN
2.
EGYPT
TEXT: Isaiah 19:1-15
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift cloud, and
cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his
presence; and the...
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Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise
counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I
am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
ZOAN. The Greeks...
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19:11 Zoan, (f-8) Tanis. see ch. 30.4....
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THE JUDGMENT, ON EGYPT
A prophecy concerning Egypt, probably belonging to the same period as
Isaiah 18, and designed to show the speedy collapse of Egypt's power,
on which a strong political party in...
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ZOAN] or Tanis, in the Delta....
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 19
GOD WILL PUNISH EGYPT
V1 God gave this special message to Isaiah...
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These two Chapter s (19, 20) contain the burden of Egypt. Its doom is
first declared (19: 1-15). Jehovah's advent will result in the
destruction of idols, in civil war, in failure in counsel, and in t...
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Surely the princes of (i) Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the wise
counsellors of Pharaoh is become senseless: how say ye to Pharaoh, I
(k) [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
(i) Ca...
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_Tanis. Or of the twelve kings, ver. 1. They are disconcerted at the
approach of Psammitichus, (Calmet) or at the want of water. (Haydock)_...
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In these verses the subject of lamentation is carried on, under
various descriptions, and all corresponding to denote the burden of
Egypt. Their senators and wise men became unable to guide the helm o...
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11._Surely the princes of Zoan are fools. _Here he joins wisdom with
folly, and not without reason; for it is impossible to take away from
men a conviction of their wisdom, which leads them to believe...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23.
In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah
will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of
Je...
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SURELY THE PRINCES OF ZOAN [ARE] FOOLS,.... Zoan was a very ancient
city of Egypt, it was built within seven years of Hebron in the land
of Judah, Numbers 13:22 here it was that the Lord did those mir...
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Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the wise
counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I
[am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Ver. 11. _Sure...
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_Surely the princes of Zoan are fools_, &c. Zoan was the chief city,
in which the king and court frequently resided. In these verses the
prophet describes “the immediate causes of these evils; 1st, Th...
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A THREAT OF DESTRUCTION...
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Surely the princes of Zoan, or Tanis, a city of Lower Egypt, at one
time the capital of the country, ARE FOOLS, THE COUNSEL OF THE WISE
COUNSELORS OF PHARAOH IS BECOME BRUTISH, the priestly counselors...
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1-17 God shall come into Egypt with his judgments. He will raise up
the causes of their destruction from among themselves. When ungodly
men escape danger, they are apt to think themselves secure; but...
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ZOAN; the chief city, in which the king and court frequently resided.
See PSALMS 78:12. BRUTISH; exceeding foolish, and destructive to
themselves. HOW SAY YE UNTO PHARAOH? why do you put such false an...
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Isaiah 19:11 princes H8269 Zoan H6814 fools H191 Pharaohs H6547 wise
H2450 counselors H3289 (H8802) foolish...
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‘The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest
counsellors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings”? Where t...
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CONTENTS: Burden of Egypt, looking forward, through desolations, to
Kingdom blessing with Israel.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: The barbarous usage which the enemies of God have given
His people, eve...
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Isaiah 19:4. _A cruel lord._ Such was Nebuchadnezzar; and after him,
Cambyses, and other Persian kings. One oppression succeeded another,
as illustrated in Daniel 11.
Isaiah 19:11. _The princes of Zoa...
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_How say ye. .. I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?_
ON THE PRIDE OF BIRTH
The charge which the prophet makes upon the Egyptian nobles may, with
some justice, be extended to those in...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 19:1
THE BURDEN OF EGYPT. It has been doubted whether this prophecy refers
to the conquest of Egypt by Piankhi, as related in the monument which
he set up at Napata, or to that by E...
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Now he turns to Egypt.
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and
shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his
presence, and the heart of Egypt shall...
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1 Corinthians 1:19; 1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Kings 4:30; Acts 7:22;...
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Zoan — The chief city, in which the king and court frequently
resided. How — Why do you put such foolish words into Pharaoh's
mouth? I am the son — Wisdom is heredity and natural to me....