Isaiah
30:4
4 For his princes [sar] were at Zoan [Tso`an], and his
ambassadors [mal'ak] came [naga`] to Hanes [Chanec]. KJV-Interlinear
4 For though his officials are at
Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes, ESV
The princes and ambassadors, represent people who hold
and occupy the highest positions in ranks within the nation. Zoan and Hanes, represent the homes and
residences of the kings and royalty of Egypt both in lower Egypt as well as in
the more distant upper Egypt.
The Bible has to be interpreted in the time in which
it was written, and back in Isaiah’s day, traveling from Jerusalem to Egypt was
a lengthy, and costly, and dangerous trip.
And what Isaiah is describing here is that the
Israelites preferred to go on long and painful journeys and to expend vast sums
of money as well as taking expensive gifts which were supplied by and paid for
out of the resources of Judah, so that they could be given to the royalty of
Egypt in order to obtain an alliance with Egypt.
The contrast here is that God is near, as close as
your own thoughts and prayers, access to God is free, the price of which is
faith, and there is no danger in turning to or going to God.
Remember this chapter opened up with a warning to
those who ignored God, ignored Christ, and ignored their spiritual life.
By doing that, people turn to the world and they wrap
themselves up in the world, and they go to great extremes and effort and
expense in order to align themselves with the world. And in all of this, in the
hope that the world will somehow benefit them, prosper them, secure them, and
make life better for them.
And that hope and belief is a false hope, is a false
belief, because those things in the world do not exist.
People will do more to avoid their spiritual life, and
gain nothing.
People could do far less by pursuing a daily Bible
study, and end up gaining everything and more.
These
studies are a part of the massive daily study web site at DailyBibeStudy.Org,
and are written, so that you can come to Christ if you have not done so
already, and therefore not be lost forever.
And
if you have already believed in Christ, then these studies are written so you
can learn and understand and grow in your spiritual life, so that you can come
to the full knowledge of Christ, so that you can fulfill your meaning and
purpose in life as God intended for you, and so you can qualify for a
phenomenal eternal reward which you will have forever.
To
ignore this opportunity to pursue a daily study means you will be incomplete,
unfulfilled and you will lose out, big time.
The
Daily Bible Study is online, making it possible as never before in all of human
history, to advance in ones relationship with God, through Christ, and to
complete yourself beyond your imagination.
But
you have to decide to make that commitment.
No one else can study for you.
You have to do that yourself.
