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Hebrew name for Tanis — the Egyptian capital remembered as the setting of the Exodus plagues
EgyptHistorically Verified
Modern San el-Hagar in the Nile Delta. The site has been excavated since the 1860s — royal tombs and granite monuments confirm it as a major Delta capital exactly when the Bible places the Exodus there.
The Hebrew name for the ancient Egyptian capital Tanis, in the eastern Nile Delta. Psalm 78 fixes the Israelites' Exodus-era memory there — "the wonders he did before their ancestors in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan" (Psalm 78:12, 43). The scout report in Numbers 13:22 notes that Hebron was built seven years before Zoan, an early-Egypt chronology touchpoint. The prophets later named Zoan in their oracles against Egypt — "its princes are mere fools" (Isaiah 19:11, 13; 30:4; Ezekiel 30:14).
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