This king of Judah was Hezekiah (see 2 Kings Chapter s 18 to 20).
• The towns called Zoan and Hanes were both in the northern part of Egypt, near the border with Judah. This is the only time that Hanes appears in the Bible.
• Zoan was the capital of Egypt (see Psalms 78:12).
Verse Isaiah 30:4. _HANES_] Six MSS. of _Kennicott's_, and perhaps six others, with four of _De Rossi's_, read חנם _chinnam, in vain_, for הנס _Hanes_; and so also the _Septuagint_, who read likewise...
FOR HIS PRINCES - The sense of this verse seems to be this. The prophet is stating the fact that the Jews would be ashamed of their attempted alliance with Egypt. In this verse, and the following, he...
CHAPTER 30 The Fourth Woe Against Alliance With Egypt 1. _The alliance and its failure (Isaiah 30:1)_ 2. _The written table against the rebellious people (Isaiah 30:8)_ 3. Jehovah's word of encourage...
ISAIAH 30. DENUNCIATION OF THE EGYPTIAN ALLIANCE. THE BLESSED FUTURE OF ISRAEL. THE DESTRUCTION OF ASSYRIA. We should probably pass the same judgment on Isaiah 30:18 as on Isaiah 29:16. The two passag...
HIS: i.e. Pharaoh's. ZOAN. Now _Zan._ LEARN DOCTRINE. accept instruction. Hanes. Called Tahapanes (Jeremiah 2:16). Now _Tell Defenneh_, about seventy miles from Cairo, the capital of. minor district...
The futile alliance with Egypt denounced. Comp. Isaiah 29:15; Isaiah 31:1....
On _Zoan_, see on ch. Isaiah 19:11. _Hanes_is identified with Heracleopolis magna (Egyptian _Hnes_, still called _Ahnâs_), situated to the south of Memphis on an island in the Nile. Zoan and Hanes thu...
FOR HIS PRINCES WERE AT ZOAN— _When his princes—to Hanes,_ Isaiah 30:5 _they were,_ &c. Isaiah 30:6 _as to the burden of the beasts southward, unto a land—from whence come the lioness and stout lion_—...
B. FRIENDS THAT FETTER, Chapter S 30-31 1. SHAME TEXT: Isaiah 30:1-14 1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit...
For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. FOR HIS - Judah's (cf. ). PRINCES WERE AT ZOAN - are already arrived there on their errand to Pharaoh (see ). AND HIS AMBASSADOR...
30:4 his (l-2) i.e. Judah's. Hanes. (a-12) Tahpanhes. see Jeremiah 2:16 ; Jeremiah 43:7 ; Ezekiel 30:18 . Heracleopolis, in Central Egypt....
1-7. The Egyptian alliance is profitless. 8-11. The perversity of Judah, 12-17. and its disastrous consequences. 18-26. There is a glorious prospect for the repentant people. 27-33 But first Jehov...
WERE.. CAME] RV 'are.. come': the ambassadors of Judah go from place to place in Egypt seeking aid. ZOAN (Gk. _Tanis_) and HANES (Gk. _Heracleopolis_) were both cities in the Delta of the Nile....
HIS PRINCES WERE AT ZOAN... — Better, _are, in_ the vivid use of the historic present of prophecy. Zoan, the Tanis of the Greeks, was one of the oldest of Egyptian cities. Hanes, identified with the G...
כִּֽי ־הָי֥וּ בְ צֹ֖עַן שָׂרָ֑יו וּ מַלְאָכָ֖
BOOK 3 ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS 705-702 B.C. Isaiah: 29 About 703 30 A little later 31 A little later 32:1-8 Later 32:9-20 Date uncertain ------------...
FATAL RELIANCE ON HUMAN AID Isaiah 30:1-17 Toward the close of the 8th century, b.c. Jerusalem sent ambassadors to seek help from Egypt against Assyria, in distinct defiance of God's repeated warning...
This chapter contains two distinct messages. In the first, the prophet denounces an alliance with Egypt (verses Isa 30:1-26), and in the second foretells the destruction of Assyria (verses Isa 30:27-3...
For his (c) princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. (c) The chief of Israel went into Egypt as an ambassador to seek help and abode at these cities....
_Hanes. Chaldean, "Taphanes," (Jeremias ii. 16.) or Daphnæ Pelusiæ. (Herodotus ii. 30.) --- In the Arabic, Nome, which formed part of (Haydock) the dominions of Tharaca. (Calmet)_...
Reader! remark amidst all the rebellions of Israel, how the Lord still calls them children. And though chastisement must and will follow their disobedience, yet, the very chastisement proves the Lord'...
4._For his princes were in Zoan. _The Prophet not only says that the aid of the Egyptians was sought, and that they were invited to assist, but expresses something more, namely, that the Jews obtained...
The effect of this unbelief is manifested in chapter 30. The people put their trust in man, according to the wisdom of man. They look to Egypt for help, but in vain. This contempt of Jehovah, accompan...
FOR HIS PRINCES WERE AT ZOAN,.... That is, the princes of the king of Judah, or of the people of Judah; though it can hardly be thought that princes should be sent ambassadors into Egypt, to enter int...
For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. Ver. 4. _For his princes were at Zoan._] Where Pharaoh kept his court, and Moses had done his miracles. _ And his ambassadors came to...
_Wo to the rebellious children_ The Jews, who called themselves God's children, though they were rebellious ones, as was said Isaiah 1:2. _That take counsel_ That consult together, and resolve what to...
For his princes, the ambassadors sent by Judah, WERE AT ZOAN, having arrived there to confer with Pharaoh, AND HIS AMBASSADORS CAME TO HANES, these two cities being the royal seats of Egypt at that ti...
THE ALLIANCE WITH EGYPT AND THE REBELLIOUS PEOPLE...
1-7 It was often the fault and folly of the Jews, that when troubled by their neighbours on one side, they sought for succour from others, instead of looking up to God. Nor can we avoid the dreadful...
HIS PRINCES; the princes of Judah, either sent by the king, or by the appointment of their brethren. HANES; an eminent city of Egypt, called more largely _Tahapanes_, and _Tahpanhes_, JEREMIAH 2:16, J...
Isaiah 30:4 princes H8269 Zoan H6814 ambassadors H4397 came H5060 (H8686) Hanes H2609 his princes -...
CHAPTER 30 THE FOURTH WOE. AGAINST THOSE WHO TRUST IN EGYPT RATHER THAN IN YAHWEH (ISAIAH 30:1). Having broken with Assyria and withheld tribute, as a result of the death of Sargon II of Assyria and t...
CONTENTS: Warnings against alliance with Egypt against Sennacherib and exhortation to turn to the Lord for help. CHARACTERS: God, Pharoah. CONCLUSION: When sin has brought men into distress, it is th...
Isaiah 30:1. _Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me._ It was a law among all ancient nations to undertake nothing of importance without consulting the gods....
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 30:1 THE ALLIANCE WITH EGYPT OPENLY REBUKED. In the preceding chapter (Isaiah 30:15) the design of the Jewish rulers to seek the alliance of Egypt was covertly
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not from me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to their sin (Isaiah 30:1): Now these pe...
2 Kings 17:4; Ezekiel 30:14; Ezekiel 30:18; Hosea 7:11; Hosea 7:12;...
His princes — The princes of Judah. Hanes — An eminent city of Egypt....