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And to Zoan and Hanes, accordingly, the Jewish envoys had to make their way.

The princes of Judah assembled at Zoan; the ambassadors went farther, even to Hanes.

The ambassadors of Hezekiah who were sent from Jerusalem to ask the help of the Egyptian monarch against the common Assyrian enemy came not only to Zoan in the Delta, but to Hanes as well.

Zoan and Hanes must have been for the moment the two centres of Egyptian government and the seats of the Pharaoh's court.

While the seventeenth Hyksos dynasty was reigning at Zoan, or Tanis, in the north, a seventeenth Egyptian dynasty was ruling at Thebes.