Psalms 78:43

Psa. 78:43. "How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan." Wells, in his Sacred Geography, from hence very probably supposes that Zoan, in the time when Moses wrought these miracles in Egypt, was the royal city, or the city where the Pharoahs had their seat; for we know that Moses wrought those miracles in the presence of Pharoah, and therefore doubtless near the city where he dwelt, or in the fields about that city. Zoan was probably from the beginning the seat of their kings, and that it is because it was so noted a city, and especially so known to the children of Israel, who had been bond-slaves in Egypt under Pharoah, who dwelt in Zoan, that such particular notice is taken of it in Numbers 13:22. "Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt." And Dr. Wells observes, that this seems to have been the royal seat long after, even until Isaiah's time, though Noph and Hanes were two other cities where the kings of Egypt did then sometimes reside. Isaiah 19:11. "Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharoah is become brutish; how say ye unto Pharoah, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?" Verse 13. "The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof." Isaiah 30:4. "For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes." Zoan is the same with Tanis. By the Seventy interpreters, Noph is the same with Memphis, Hanes is the same with Tahapanes; Jeremiah 2:16. And Tahapanes, where we read that Pharaoh had a house, Jeremiah 43:9. Called in Ezekiel 30:18. Tehaphnehes, the same that was called Daphne by the Greeks. Soon after Isaiah's time, Noph, or Memphis, became the capital city. Ezekiel 30:13. Wells's Sacred Geography, p. 8, 9. And p. 49, 50.

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