Zoan
Town · today Tanis
Location well established About 330 km (210 miles) west of Jerusalem
Named in 7 Verses
- 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.)
- Psalms 78:12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
- Psalms 78:43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
- Isaiah 19:11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
- 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.
- Isaiah 30:4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
- Ezekiel 30:14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
Locations from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Terrain from Natural Earth and NASA SRTM.
