Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 19:13

13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived, they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

Another chief City, and one of the King's Seats, so called also Ier. 2. 16. & 44. 1. called also Moph in the Hebrew Text, Hos. 9. 6. and by other and later Authors, Memphis.

Heb. even the corner, or, the Corner-stone, which is the chief Support of the Building. Whereby he may design, either, 1. the King; or, 2. some eminent Statesman of that Age, upon whose Counsels both King and People depended; or, 3. their chief Counsellors, the Singular Number being here put collectively, as it is in many other places.

Of the Provinces, which he calls by a Title borrowed from the Hebrews, in whose Language he spake and wrote this Prophecy.

Marginal references: Or, governors.; Heb. corn.