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 13:22They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
• Acts 7:22Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.
• Isa 30:4For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.
• 1 Kgs 4:30Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
• Ps 78:43how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
• Ps 78:12He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
• Gen 41:38–39Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”
• Jer 49:7Of Edom. Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
• Jer 10:14Every man has become brutish and without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
• Job 5:12–13He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
• Isa 19:13The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes.
• 1 Cor 1:19–20For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”
• Ps 33:10Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
• Jer 10:21For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.
• Ps 73:22I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
• Isa 19:3The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.
• Ezek 30:14I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.
• Job 12:17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
• Isa 29:14therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”
• Ezek 7:26Mischief will come on mischief, and rumor will be on rumor. They will seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
• Prov 30:2“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.
• Ps 92:6A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:
• Isa 44:25who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

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