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Where then are your wise men? and let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Hosts has purposed concerning Egypt.
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A Challenge to Worldly Wisdom
Commentators explain that this verse is a direct, mocking challenge to Egypt's famous wise men, magicians, and astrologers. God, through the prophet, asks where these experts are in a time of crisis. Their inability to know or declare God's plan for Egypt exposes their wisdom as fraudulent and utterly powerless compared to the God of Israel.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Where are they? - This whole verse is an appeal by the prophet to the king of Egypt concerning the counselors and soothsayers of his kingdom…
16th Century
Protestant
Where are thy wise men? that they may tell thee. Though literally it runs thus, “And they shall tell thee, and shall know,” yet t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Where [are] they? where [are] your wise [men] ? &c.] The magicians and soothsayers, the diviners and astrologers, wh…
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God will come into Egypt with his judgments. He will raise up the causes of their destruction from among themselves.
When ungodly people esc…
13th Century
Catholic
The burden of Egypt. In this part, the author threatens the destruction of the Egyptians, describing its manner and order…
