Isaiah 19:11

Egypt's celebrated counselors are exposed as fools, their boasted wisdom worthless. It matters because human wisdom apart from God cannot stand before his purposes.

Cross-references · 23

• Num 13:22And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
• Acts 7:22And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
• Isa 30:4For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
• 1 Kgs 4:30And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
• Ps 78:43How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
• Ps 78:12Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
• Gen 41:38–39And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
• Jer 49:7Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
• Jer 10:14Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
• Job 5:12–13He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
• Isa 19:13The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
• 1 Cor 1:19–20For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
• Ps 33:10The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
• Jer 10:21For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
• Ps 73:22So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
• Isa 19:3And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
• Ezek 30:14And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
• Job 12:17He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
• Isa 29:14Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
• Ezek 7:26Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
• Prov 30:2Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
• Ps 92:6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
• Isa 44:25That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

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