Isaiah 30:4
New International Version
Though they have officials in Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,

New Living Translation
For though his power extends to Zoan and his officials have arrived in Hanes,

English Standard Version
For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes,

Berean Standard Bible
For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,

King James Bible
For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

New King James Version
For his princes were at Zoan, And his ambassadors came to Hanes.

New American Standard Bible
“For their officials are at Zoan And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.

NASB 1995
“For their princes are at Zoan And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.

NASB 1977
“For their princes are at Zoan, And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.

Legacy Standard Bible
For their princes are at Zoan And their messengers reach Hanes.

Amplified Bible
“For his princes are at Zoan And his ambassadors arrive at Hanes [in Egypt].

Christian Standard Bible
For though his princes are at Zoan and his messengers reach as far as Hanes,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For though his princes are at Zoan and his messengers reach as far as Hanes,

American Standard Version
For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because he is in Tsuan, and his Princes and his profane Messengers shall grow weary with labor

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For there are princes in Tanes, evil messengers.

Contemporary English Version
The king's power reaches from the city of Zoan as far south as Hanes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy messengers came even to Hanes.

English Revised Version
For his princes are at Zoan, and his ambassadors are come to Hanes.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Although Pharaoh's officials are in Zoan and his messengers have reached Hanes,

Good News Translation
Although their ambassadors have already arrived at the Egyptian cities of Zoan and Hanes,

International Standard Version
And it will turn out that his officials are at Zoan, and his envoys will reach Hanes.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For his princes are at Zoan, And his ambassadors are come to Hanes.

Literal Standard Version
For his princes were in Zoan, | And his messengers reach Hanes.

Majority Standard Bible
For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,

New American Bible
When his princes are at Zoan and his messengers reach Hanes,

NET Bible
Though his officials are in Zoan and his messengers arrive at Hanes,

New Revised Standard Version
For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes,

New Heart English Bible
For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

Webster's Bible Translation
For his princes were at Zoan, and his embassadors came to Hanes.

World English Bible
For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

Young's Literal Translation
For in Zoan were his princes, And his messengers reach Hanes.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Worthless Treaty with Egypt
3But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace. 4For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes, 5everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They cannot be of help; they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.”…

Cross References
Psalm 78:12
He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

Isaiah 19:11
The 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"?

Jeremiah 49:14
I have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent to the nations: "Assemble yourselves to march against her! Rise up for battle!"

Obadiah 1:1
This is the vision of Obadiah: This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom--We have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent among the nations to say, "Rise up, and let us go to battle against her!"--


Treasury of Scripture

For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

his princes

Isaiah 57:9
And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.

2 Kings 17:4
And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

Hosea 7:11,12,16
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria…

Zoan

Isaiah 19:11
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

Numbers 13:22
And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Ezekiel 30:14
And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.

Hanes

Jeremiah 43:7
So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.

Tahpanhes

Ezekiel 30:18
At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

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(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.

Verse 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.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For though
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

their princes
שָׂרָ֑יו (śā·rāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 8269: Chieftain, chief, ruler, official, captain, prince

are
הָי֥וּ (hā·yū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

at Zoan
בְצֹ֖עַן (ḇə·ṣō·‘an)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 6814: Zoan -- a place in Egypt

and their envoys
וּמַלְאָכָ֖יו (ū·mal·’ā·ḵāw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4397: A messenger, of God, an angel

have arrived
יַגִּֽיעוּ׃ (yag·gî·‘ū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5060: To touch, lay the hand upon, to reach, violently, to strike

in Hanes,
חָנֵ֥ס (ḥā·nês)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 2609: Hanes -- a place in Egypt


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