Zoan
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Zoan — (Gammel Egypt. Sant= “fæstning,” det moderne San). En by ved Tanit-grenen af Nilen, kaldet Tanis af grækerne. Den blev bygget syv år efter Hebron i Palæstina [Nm 13:22]. Denne store og vigtige by var hovedstaden for Hyksos, eller Hyrde-kongerne, som herskede over Egypten i mere end 500 år. Det var grænsebyen til Goshen. Her holdt Farao sin hof på tidspunktet for sine forskellige møder med Moses og Aron. “Ingen spor af Zoan findes; Tanis blev bygget over det, og by efter by er blevet bygget over ruinerne af det” (Harper, Bibelen og Moderne Opdagelse). Omfattende ruinhøje, vraget af den gamle by, markerer nu dens sted [Es 19:11 , 13; Es 30:4 ; Ez 30:14 ]. “Det hele udgør en af de storslåede og ældste ruiner i verden.”
Denne by blev også kaldt “Zoans Mark” [Sl 78:12 , 43] og “Rameses By” (se q.v.), fordi undertrykkeren genopbyggede og udsmykkede den, sandsynligvis ved tvangsarbejde af hebræerne, og gjorde den til sin nordlige hovedstad.
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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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