Isaiah 19:11

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the wise counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”?

Cross References

1 Kings 4:30

so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 5:10

So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired,

Job 12:17

He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to naught; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

Psalm 73:22

I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward thee.

Psalm 78:12

In the sight of their fathers he wrought marvels in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.

Psalm 78:43

when he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.

Psalm 92:6

The dull man cannot know, the stupid cannot understand this:

Exodus 8:14

And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.

Exodus 8:4

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

Proverbs 30:2

Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.

Isaiah 19:13

The princes of Zoan have become fools, and the princes of Memphis are deluded; those who are the cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray.

Isaiah 19:3

and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their plans; and they will consult the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the wizards;

Isaiah 29:14

therefore, behold, I will again do marvelous things with this people, wonderful and marvelous; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hid.”

Isaiah 30:4

For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes,

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the omens of liars, and makes fools of diviners; who turns wise men back, and makes their knowledge foolish;

Jeremiah 10:14

Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 10:21

For the shepherds are stupid, and do not inquire of the Lord; therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.

Jeremiah 46:17

Call the name of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, ‘Noisy one who lets the hour go by.’

Jeremiah 49:7

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

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men shall be put to shame, they shall be dismayed and taken; lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them?

Ezekiel 28:17

Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.

Ezekiel 30:14

I will make Pathros a desolation, and will set fire to Zoan, and will execute acts of judgment upon Thebes.

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster comes upon disaster, rumor follows rumor; they seek a vision from the prophet, but the law perishes from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

Obadiah 1:7

All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you— there is no understanding of it.

Obadiah 1:8

Will I not on that day, says the Lord, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?

Numbers 13:22

They went up into the Negeb, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Acts 7:22

And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.