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