Zoan
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Zoan — (Mesir Purba. Sant= “kubu kuat,” San moden). Sebuah bandar di cabang Tanitik Sungai Nil, yang dipanggil oleh orang Yunani sebagai Tanis. Ia dibina tujuh tahun selepas Hebron di Palestin [Bil 13:22 ]. Bandar besar dan penting ini adalah ibu kota Hyksos, atau raja Gembala, yang memerintah Mesir selama lebih daripada 500 tahun. Ia adalah bandar sempadan Goshen. Di sini Firaun mengadakan pertemuan dengan Musa dan Harun. “Tiada jejak Zoan wujud; Tanis dibina di atasnya, dan bandar demi bandar telah dibina di atas runtuhan itu” (Harper, Bible and Modern Discovery). Timbunan runtuhan yang luas, sisa-sisa bandar purba, kini menandakan tapaknya [Yes 19:11 , Yes 19:13 ; Yes 30:4 ; Yeh 30:14 ]. “Keseluruhan ini merupakan salah satu runtuhan yang paling agung dan tertua di dunia.”
Bandar ini juga dipanggil “Padang Zoan” [Maz 78:12 , Maz 78:43 ] dan “Bandar Rameses” (lihat q.v.), kerana penindas membina semula dan memperindahkannya, mungkin dengan kerja paksa orang Ibrani, dan menjadikannya ibu kota utara.
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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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