George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 19:13
Memphis. The seat of many kings, and a very ancient city. Hebrew, "Hoph." --- Stay. Literally, "angle," denoting the chiefs, or all the land, Judges xx. 2.
Memphis. The seat of many kings, and a very ancient city. Hebrew, "Hoph." --- Stay. Literally, "angle," denoting the chiefs, or all the land, Judges xx. 2.
Verse Isaiah 19:13. _ARE DECEIVED_ - "They have caused," c.] The text has וחתעו _vehithu, AND they have caused to err_. _Fifty_ of _Kennicott's_ MSS., _fifty-three_ of _De Rossi's_, and _one_ of my ow...
THE PRINCES OF ZOAN - (the note at Isaiah 19:11). This “repetition” is intensive and emphatic, and shows the deep conviction of the prophet of their folly. The design is to show that “all” the counsel...
CHAPTER 19 The Burden of Egypt 1. _The judgment announced (Isaiah 19:1)_ 2. _Egypt blest with Israel in the last days (Isaiah 19:16) _ Egypt has passed through many judgments. Hundreds of years after...
ISAIAH 19. ORACLE ON EGYPT. This is one of the most difficult Chapter s in the book. It falls into two sections, Isaiah 19:1 and Isaiah 19:18. If Isaiah 19:1 is in the main from Isaiah, it probably re...
_are become fools_ Better ARE BEFOOLED "stultified." _Noph_is Memphis, the capital of Lower Egypt, and an ancient seat of Egyptian religion and learning. An older form of the Hebrew name is apparently...
The stultification of Pharaoh's advisers....
SURELY THE PRINCES OF ZOAN ARE FOOLS, &C.— _Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; the very wisest of Pharaoh's counsellors: counsel is become brutish. How will you boast unto Pharaoh, I am the son of...
CHAPTER NINETEEN 2. EGYPT TEXT: Isaiah 19:1-15 1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the...
The 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. NOPH - called also Moph; Greek, Memphis (; )...
19:13 Zoan (f-4) Tanis. see ch. 30.4. Noph (g-11) Memphis....
A. second proof, by ill-judged counsel they have brought about disaster. NOPH] i.e. Memphis, a chief city of Lower Egypt. STAY] RV 'corner stone': cp. Zechariah 10:4....
THE JUDGMENT, ON EGYPT A prophecy concerning Egypt, probably belonging to the same period as Isaiah 18, and designed to show the speedy collapse of Egypt's power, on which a strong political party in...
Memphis was the capital of Egypt before Zoan....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 19 GOD WILL PUNISH EGYPT V1 God gave this special message to Isaiah...
נֹֽואֲלוּ֙ שָׂ֣רֵי צֹ֔עַן נִשְּׁא֖וּ שָׂ֣רֵי נֹ֑ף...
These two Chapter s (19, 20) contain the burden of Egypt. Its doom is first declared (19: 1-15). Jehovah's advent will result in the destruction of idols, in civil war, in failure in counsel, and in t...
The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of (l) Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, [even they that are] the (m) support of its tribes. (l) Or Memphis, Alexandria, and now calle...
In these verses the subject of lamentation is carried on, under various descriptions, and all corresponding to denote the burden of Egypt. Their senators and wise men became unable to guide the helm o...
13._The princes of Zoan are become infatuated, the princes of Noph are deceived. Zoan _was one of the chief cities of Egypt; _Noph _also was highly celebrated; (36) but what cities they were we cannot...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...
THE PRINCES OF ZOAN ARE BECOME FOOLS,.... Or infatuated, in their counsels to Pharaoh, and by giving heed to the magicians and diviners; Isaiah 19:11: THE PRINCES OF NOPH ARE DECEIVED; called Moph, i...
The 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. Ver. 13. _The princes of Zoan are become foo...
_Surely the princes of Zoan are fools_, &c. Zoan was the chief city, in which the king and court frequently resided. In these verses the prophet describes “the immediate causes of these evils; 1st, Th...
The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph, of Memphis, on the western bank of the Nile, capital of Lower Egypt, ARE DECEIVED; THEY HAVE ALSO SEDUCED EGYPT, led its people astray by the...
A THREAT OF DESTRUCTION...
THEY THAT ARE THE STAY: Or, governors. _Heb._ corners...
1-17 God shall come into Egypt with his judgments. He will raise up the causes of their destruction from among themselves. When ungodly men escape danger, they are apt to think themselves secure; but...
NOPH; another chief city, and one of the king's seats, so called also JEREMIAH 2:16, JEREMIAH 44:1; called also _Moph_ in the Hebrew text, HOSEA 9:6; and by other and later authors, _Memphis._ Even th...
Isaiah 19:13 princes H8269 Zoan H6814 fools H2973 (H8738) princes H8269 Noph H5297 deceived H5377 (H8738) deluded...
‘The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings”? Where t...
CONTENTS: Burden of Egypt, looking forward, through desolations, to Kingdom blessing with Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The barbarous usage which the enemies of God have given His people, eve...
Isaiah 19:4. _A cruel lord._ Such was Nebuchadnezzar; and after him, Cambyses, and other Persian kings. One oppression succeeded another, as illustrated in Daniel 11. Isaiah 19:11. _The princes of Zoa...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 19:1 THE BURDEN OF EGYPT. It has been doubted whether this prophecy refers to the conquest of Egypt by Piankhi, as related in the monument which he set up at Napata, or to that by E...
Now he turns to Egypt. The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall...
1 Peter 2:7; 1 Samuel 14:38; Ezekiel 30:13; Isaiah 19:11; Jeremiah 2:
Noph — Another chief city, and one of the kings seats, called also Moph, and by latter authors, Memphis. The stay — Their chief counsellors. Tribes — Of the provinces, which he calls by a title borrow...