Isaiah 30:4
For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,
BSB
ASV
For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.
KJV
For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
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 יגעו yageu, labored, for יגיעו yaggiu, arrived at.
West of the Nile, in central Egypt: Egyptian Hnes; the Greek Heracleopolis: perhaps the Anysis of HERODOTUS (2.137); according to GROTIUS, Tahpanhes contracted (Jer 43:7-9); the seat of a reigning prince at the time, as was Zoan, hence the Jewish ambassadors go to both.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Jeremiah 43:7So they entered the land of Egypt because they did not obey the voice of the LORD, and they went as far as Tahpanhes.
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The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.
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This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in the land of Egypt—in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis—and in the land of Pathros:
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Isaiah 19:11The 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”?
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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.
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when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
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So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.
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Ezekiel 30:14I will lay waste Pathros, set fire to Zoan, and execute judgment on Thebes.
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I will restore Egypt from captivity and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin. There they will be a lowly kingdom.
The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I am about to punish Amon god of Thebes, along with Pharaoh, Egypt with her gods and kings, and those who trust in Pharaoh.
He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.