Soan
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Soan — (Ou Egipte. Sant= “vesting,” die moderne San). 'n Stad aan die Tanitiese tak van die Nyl, deur die Grieke Tanis genoem. Dit is sewe jaar na Hebron in Palestina gebou [Num 13:22 ]. Hierdie groot en belangrike stad was die hoofstad van die Hyksos, of Herderkonings, wat Egipte vir meer as 500 jaar regeer het. Dit was die grensstad van Gosen. Hier het Farao sy hof gehou tydens sy verskeie onderhoude met Moses en Aäron. “Geen spoor van Soan bestaan nie; Tanis is daaroor gebou, en stad na stad is oor die ruïnes daarvan gebou” (Harper, Bybel en Moderne Ontdekking). Uitgebreide heuwels van ruïnes, die wrak van die antieke stad, merk nou sy plek [Jes 19:11 , 13; Jes 30:4 ; Eseg 30:14 ]. “Die geheel vorm een van die grootste en oudste ruïnes in die wêreld.”
Hierdie stad is ook genoem “die Veld van Soan” [Ps 78:12 , 43] en “die Stad van Rameses” (sien v.), omdat die onderdrukker dit herbou en verfraai het, waarskynlik deur die gedwonge arbeid van die Hebreërs, en dit sy noordelike hoofstad gemaak het.
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Zoan
(Old Egypt. Sant = "stronghold," the modern San). A city on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, called by the Greeks Tanis. It was built seven years after Hebron in Palestine (Num 13:22 ). This great and important city was the capital of the Hyksos, or Shepherd kings, who ruled Egypt for more than 500 years. It was the frontier town of Goshen. Here Pharaoh was holding his court at the time of his various interviews with Moses and Aaron. "No trace of Zoan exists; Tanis was built over it, and city after city has been built over the ruins of that" (Harper, Bible and Modern Discovery). Extensive mounds of ruins, the wreck of the ancient city, now mark its site (Isa 19:11; 19:13; 30:4; Ezek 30:14). "The whole constitutes one of the grandest and oldest ruins in the world."
This city was also called "the Field of Zoan" (Ps 78:12 ; 78:43) and "the Town of Rameses" (q.v.), because the oppressor rebuilt and embellished it, probably by the forced labour of the Hebrews, and made it his northern capital.
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