and I will let them live in southern Egypt, their original home. There they will be a weak kingdom,

They went first into the southern part of the land and came to Hebron, where the clans of Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of a race of giants called the Anakim, lived. (Hebron was founded seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

While their ancestors watched, God performed miracles in the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.

and performed his mighty acts and miracles in the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.

The leaders of the city of Zoan are fools! Egypt's wisest people give stupid advice! How do they dare to tell the king that they are successors to the ancient scholars and kings?

Although their ambassadors have already arrived at the Egyptian cities of Zoan and Hanes,

The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says, "I am going to punish Amon, the god of Thebes, together with Egypt and its gods and kings. I am going to take the king of Egypt and all who put their trust in him,

Nineveh, are you any better than Thebes, the capital of Egypt? She too had a river to protect her like a wall---the Nile was her defense.