Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

His princes

Isaiah 57:9
“You have journeyed to the king with oil
And increased your perfumes;
You have sent your envoys a great distance
And made them go down to Sheol.
2 Kings 17:4
But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and had offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.
Hosea 7:11
So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without sense;
They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

Zoan

Isaiah 19:11
The princes of Zoan are mere fools;
The advice of Pharaoh’s wisest advisers has become stupid.
How can you men say to Pharaoh,
“I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”?
Numbers 13:22
When they had gone up into the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the descendants of Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Ezekiel 30:14
“I will make Pathros desolate,
Set a fire in Zoan
And execute judgments on Thebes.