Isaiah 19:11

New King James Version

Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give foolish counsel. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, The son of ancient kings?”

Cross References

Numbers 13:22

And they went up through the South and came to Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Acts 7:22

And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.

Isaiah 30:4

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

Psalm 78:43

When He worked His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan;

1 Kings 4:30

Thus Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

Psalm 78:12

Marvelous things He did in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Ezekiel 30:14

I will make Pathros desolate, Set fire to Zoan, And execute judgments in No.

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And counsel from the elders.

Jeremiah 49:7

Against Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

Jeremiah 10:21

For the shepherds have become dull-hearted, And have not sought the Lord; Therefore they shall not prosper, And all their flocks shall be scattered.

Jeremiah 10:14

Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge; Every metalsmith is put to shame by an image; For his molded image is falsehood, And there is no breath in them.

Isaiah 44:25

Who frustrates the signs of the babblers, And drives diviners mad; Who turns wise men backward, And makes their knowledge foolishness;

Isaiah 29:14

Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work Among this people, A marvelous work and a wonder; For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.”

Isaiah 19:13

The princes of Zoan have become fools; The princes of Noph are deceived; They have also deluded Egypt, Those who are the mainstay of its tribes.

Isaiah 19:3

The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst; I will destroy their counsel, And they will consult the idols and the charmers, The mediums and the sorcerers.

Proverbs 30:2

Surely I am more stupid than any man, And do not have the understanding of a man.

Psalm 92:6

A senseless man does not know, Nor does a fool understand this.

Psalm 73:22

I was so foolish and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.

Job 12:17

He leads counselors away plundered, And makes fools of the judges.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men are ashamed, They are dismayed and taken. Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord; So what wisdom do they have?

Jeremiah 46:17

They cried there, ‘Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is but a noise. He has passed by the appointed time!’

Ezekiel 28:17

“Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings, That they might gaze at you.

Obadiah 1:7

All the men in your confederacy Shall force you to the border; The men at peace with you Shall deceive you and prevail against you. Those who eat your bread shall lay a trap for you. No one is aware of it.

Exodus 8:4

And the frogs shall come up on you, on your people, and on all your servants.” ’ ”

Exodus 8:14

They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.

1 Kings 5:10

Then Hiram gave Solomon cedar and cypress logs according to all his desire.

Obadiah 1:8

“Will I not in that day,” says the Lord, “Even destroy the wise men from Edom, And understanding from the mountains of Esau?