Isaiah 19:13 NLT,NIV,ESV

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 19:13

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 they that are the stay, Heb. even the corner, or the corner-stone, which is the chief support of the building. Whereby he may design either, 1. The king; or, 2. Some eminent statesman of that age, upon, whose counsels both king and people depended; or 3. Their chief counsellors, the, singular number... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 19:1-25

Chapter 19Now 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 melt in the midst of it. And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians ( Isaiah 19:1-2 ):So God is speaking here of a civil war.and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom ( Isaiah 19:2 ).There's... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 19:1-25

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 11:0. Isaiah 19:11 . The princes of Zoan. This was the most ancient city of lower Egypt, as appears from its being but seven years less ancient than Hebron. Numbers 13:0. It is called Taneos by the LXX, and Tanes or Tanis by the Chaldee, and the ancient geographers. This is done, says Poole, by the omission of a letter. Troan... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 19:13

Isa 19:13 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 fools. ] Wilful fools; this they are told twice over, because hardly persuaded to it. See Isaiah 19:11 . The princes of Noph. ] Called also Moph, Hos 9:6 and therehence Memphis, now Grand Cairo, famous once for the pyramids and monuments of the Egyptian kings. Even they that are the stay of... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 19:13

princes of Zoan: Isaiah 19:11, Romans 1:22 Noph: Jeremiah 2:16, Jeremiah 46:14, Jeremiah 46:19, Ezekiel 30:13 stay: or, governors, Heb. corners, Numbers 24:17, 1 Samuel 14:38, *marg. Zechariah 10:4, 1 Peter 2:7 Reciprocal: Genesis 3:22 - as one Joshua 8:14 - he wist not Psalms 78:12 - Zoan Isaiah 19:2 - I will Isaiah 30:28 - causing Isaiah 40:23 - General Jeremiah 44:1 - Noph Obadiah 1:8 - even read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 19:13

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 — 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 borrowed from the Hebrews, in whose language he spake and wrote this prophecy. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 19:11-13

11-13. Princes of Zoan “Zoan,” the ancient Tanis, the present Tsan, was the capital of the northeastern kingdom, as Noph, (Isaiah 19:13,) or Memphis, was of Central Egypt. These are representative cities for all Egypt in this prophecy. Pharaoh was a name, not of a person but of the royal house, personified in the ruling head at the time. His princes or counsellers are a stupified cabinet in these prophetic times, though they boast royal descent and great wisdom. See Herodotus. 2:141. They... read more