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Isaiah 30:4
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For though his princes are at Zoanand his messengers reach as far as Hanes,
For their princes are at Tzo`an, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.
For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes,
"For their officials are at Zoan And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.
Your officers have gone to Zoan, and your messengers have gone to Hanes,
"For his princes are at Zoan And his ambassadors arrive at Hanes [in Egypt].
For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.
For their princes are at ZoanAnd their messengers reach Hanes.
For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,
The king's power reaches from the city of Zoan as far south as Hanes.
Though his princes are at Tzo‘an, and his envoys have reached Hannes,
For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
Your leaders have gone to Zoan, and your representatives have gone to Hanes.
For while Pharaoh is in Zoan, his princes and ambassadors shall act deceitfully.
Although their ambassadors have already arrived at the Egyptian cities of Zoan and Hanes,
For his officials are at Zoan, and his envoys reach to Hanes.
For his rulers were in Zoan, and his ambassadors reached to Hanes.
Youre rulers haue bene at Zoan, and yor messaungers came vnto Hanes.
For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.
For his chiefs are at Zoan, and his representatives have come to Hanes.
For his princes are at Zoan, and his ambassadors are come to Hanes.
For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
For his captaynes were at Zoan, and his embassadours came vnto Hanes.
For there are princes in Tanes, evil messengers.
For his princes are at Zoan, and his ambassadors are come to Hanes.
For whi thi princes weren in Taphnys, and thi messangeris camen til to Anes.
For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.
For his princes were at Zoan, and his embassadors came to Hanes.
Though his officials are in Zoan and his messengers arrive at Hanes,
For his princes were at Zoan, And his ambassadors came to Hanes.
For though his power extends to Zoan and his officials have arrived in Hanes,
For their rulers are at Zoan, and leaders come to Hanes.
For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes,
For their princes have been, in Zoan, - And, their messengers unto Hanes, would draw near.
For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy messengers came even to Hanes.
For though his officials are at Zo'an and his envoys reach Ha'nes,
For in Zoan were his princes, And his messengers reach Hanes.
"For their princes are at Zoan And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
his princes: Isaiah 57:9, 2 Kings 17:4, Hosea 7:11, Hosea 7:12, Hosea 7:16
Zoan: Isaiah 19:11, Numbers 13:22, Ezekiel 30:14
Hanes: Jeremiah 43:7, Tahpanhes, Ezekiel 30:18, Tehaphnehes
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 49:14 - an ambassador Obadiah 1:1 - and an
Cross-References
Wherefore she saide vnto Abraham, Cast out this bond woman and her sonne: for ye sonne of this bonde woman shall not be heire with my sonne Izhak.
And his concubine called Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gahan, and Thahash and Maachah.
Nowe Abraham had taken him another wife called Keturah,
But vnto the sonnes of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gaue giftes, and sent them away from Izhak his sonne (while he yet liued) Eastward to the East countrey.
And she said, Behold my maide Bilhah, goe in to her, and she shal beare vpon my knees, and I shal haue children also by her.
Then shee gaue him Bilhah her mayde to wife, and Iaakob went in to her.
And he put the maides, and their children formost, and Leah, and her children after, and Rahel, and Ioseph hindermost.
Now, when Israel dwelt in that land, Reuben went, and lay with Bilhah his fathers concubine, and it came to Israels eare. And Iaakob had twelue sonnes.
Thus sayth the Lord, Behold, I will rayse vp euil against thee out of thine owne house, and will take thy wiues before thine eyes, and giue them vnto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wiues in the sight of this sunne.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 into an alliance, or request help, without the knowledge, leave, and consent, and indeed order, of the king, under which character they went, as appears from the following clause:
and his ambassadors came to Hanes; these are the same with the princes, for such were sent on this embassy, both for the honour of the kingdom, and for the more easy obtaining of their end; the two places mentioned, to which they went, were two principal cities in Egypt, where probably the king of Egypt was, and his court kept, sometimes at one place, and sometimes at another. Zoan is the same with Tanis, the metropolis of one of the nomes or provinces of Egypt, called from it the Tanitic nome; and so the Targum here renders it, "Tanes": and the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, "Tanis"; :-. The Jews g say there is not a more excellent place in all Egypt than Zoan, because kings were brought up in it, as it is here said, "his princes were at Zoan"; the other, here called "Hanes", is the same with Tahapanes in Jeremiah 2:16 and Tahpanhes, Jeremiah 43:7 and so the Targum here calls it; it is thought to be the same with Daphnae Pelusiae; here Pharaoh had a house or palace; see
Jeremiah 43:9 and this is the reason of the ambassadors going thither.
g T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 112. 1. & Sota, fol. 34. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 states the manner in which they would be made sensible of their folly in seeking this alliance. He therefore enumerates several circumstances in regard to the manner in which the alliance had been sought, and the disappointment that would follow after all their vain confidence. He therefore states Isaiah 30:4, that the Jews had employed persons of the highest respectability and honor, even princes, to secure the alliance; that they had gone to Egypt with much difficulty - through a land where lions, and vipers, and fiery serpents abounded; that they had at much hazard taken their treasures down to Egypt in order to secure the alliance Isaiah 30:5-6, and that after all, the Egyptians could not aid them. The phrase ‘his princes,’ refers to the princes of Judah, the ambassadors that the Jews sent forth, and the idea is, that they regarded the alliance as of so much importance that they had employed their most honorable men - even their princes - to secure it.
Were at Zoan - Had come to Zoan, or were there on the business of their embassy. On the situation of Zoan, see the notes at Isaiah 19:11, Isaiah 19:13. It was the residence of the kings in Lower Egypt, and would be the place to which the ambassadors would naturally resort to negotiate an alliance.
Came to Hanes - Respecting the situation of this place there has been much diversity of opinion among interpreters. The Chaldee renders it by the more full word “Tahpanhes;” and Grotius supposes that the word is contracted from Tahpanhes Jeremiah 43:7-8, and that the name was sometimes abbreviated and written חנס chânēs. Vitringa supposes that it was Anusis, situated in the Delta of the Nile, and the residence of the king of the same name. Herodotus (ii. 137) mentions a city of that name, Ἄνυσίς Anusis. Anusis was a king of Egypt before the irruption of the Ethiopians, and it was not uncommon for a king to give his own name to a city. Probably Anusis is the city intended here; and the sense is, that they had come to the royal residence for the purpose of negotiating an alliance. It is known that in the time of Jeremiah (588 years before Christ) “Tahpanhes” was the capital of the nation (see Jeremiah 43:9).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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 יגעו yageu, labored, for יגיעו yaggiu, arrived at.
