Isaiah Chapter 30 verse 4 Holy Bible

ASV Isaiah 30:4

For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.
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BBE Isaiah 30:4

For his chiefs are at Zoan, and his representatives have come to Hanes.
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DARBY Isaiah 30:4

For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
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KJV Isaiah 30:4

For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
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WBT Isaiah 30:4


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WEB Isaiah 30:4

For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.
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YLT Isaiah 30:4

For in Zoan were his princes, And his messengers reach Hanes.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - His princes were at Zoan. "Zoan" is undoubtedly Tanis, which is now "San," a heap of ruins in the Delta, where some interesting remains of the shepherd-kings have been discovered. It was a favorite capital of the monarchs of the nineteenth dynasty, and seems to have been the scene of the struggle between Moses and the Pharaoh of the Exodus (Psalm 78:12, 43). It then declined, but is said to have been the birthplace of the first king of the twenty-first dynasty. In the Ethiopian period it rose once more to some importance, and was at one time the capital of a principality (see G. Smith's 'Asshur-bani-pal,' pp. 21, 26, 32). The "princes" here spoken of are probably Hezekiah's ambassadors. His ambassadors came to Hanes. "Hanes" has been generally identified with the modern Esnes, a village between Memphis and Thebes, which is thought to mark the site of Hera-cleopolis Magna. But it has been well remarked that the Jewish envoys would scarcely have proceeded so far. Mr. R.S. Peele suggests, instead of Esnes, Tahpenes, or Daphnae ('Dict. of the Bible,' vol. 1. p. 753); but that name is somewhat remote from Hanes. Perhaps it would be best to acknowledge that "Hanes" cannot at present be identified. It was probably not very far from Tanis.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) 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 Greek Heracleopolis, as lying in the delta of the Nile, would be among the first Egyptian cities which the embassy would reach.