Zoan

I will lay waste Pathros, set fire to Zoan, and execute judgment on Thebes.

¹¹ The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?

¹² Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.

¹³ The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray.

⁴ For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,

⁵ everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They cannot be of help; they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.”

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

⁴² They did not remember His power — the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

⁴³ when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.