Isaiah 19:11

New International Version

The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; the wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings”?

Cross References

1 Kings 4:30

Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, and greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 5:10

In this way Hiram kept Solomon supplied with all the cedar and juniper logs he wanted,

Job 12:17

He leads rulers away stripped and makes fools of judges.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.

Psalm 73:22

I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you.

Psalm 78:12

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

Psalm 78:43

the day he displayed his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.

Psalm 92:6

Senseless people do not know, fools do not understand,

Exodus 8:14

They were piled into heaps, and the land reeked of them.

Exodus 8:4

The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.’ ”

Proverbs 30:2

Surely I am only a brute, not a man; I do not have human understanding.

Isaiah 19:13

The officials of Zoan have become fools, the leaders of Memphis are deceived; the cornerstones of her peoples have led Egypt astray.

Isaiah 19:3

The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will bring their plans to nothing; they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists.

Isaiah 29:14

Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.”

Isaiah 30:4

Though they have officials in Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,

Isaiah 44:25

who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who overthrows the learning of the wise and turns it into nonsense,

Jeremiah 10:14

Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.

Jeremiah 10:21

The shepherds are senseless and do not inquire of the Lord; so they do not prosper and all their flock is scattered.

Jeremiah 46:17

There they will exclaim, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is only a loud noise; he has missed his opportunity.’

Jeremiah 49:7

Concerning Edom: This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what kind of wisdom do they have?

Ezekiel 28:17

Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings.

Ezekiel 30:14

I will lay waste Upper Egypt, set fire to Zoan and inflict punishment on Thebes.

Ezekiel 7:26

Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor upon rumor. They will go searching for a vision from the prophet, priestly instruction in the law will cease, the counsel of the elders will come to an end.

Obadiah 1:7

All your allies will force you to the border; your friends will deceive and overpower you; those who eat your bread will set a trap for you, but you will not detect it.

Obadiah 1:8

“In that day,” declares the Lord, “will I not destroy the wise men of Edom, those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?

Numbers 13:22

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

Acts 7:22

Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.