Daniel 11:4-6
1599 Geneva Bible
4 And when he shall stand up, [a]his kingdom shall be broken, [b]and shall be divided toward the [c]four winds of heaven: and not to his [d]posterity, nor according to [e]his dominion, which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up even to be for others besides [f]those.
5 And the [g]King of the South shall be mighty, and one of [h]his princes, and shall prevail against him, and bear rule: his dominion shall be a great dominion.
6 And in the end of years they shall be joined together: for the King’s [i]daughter of the South shall come to the King of the North to make an agreement, but she shall not retain the power of the [j]arm, neither shall [k]he continue, nor his [l]arm: but she shall be delivered to death, and they that brought her, and he [m]that begat her, and he that comforted her, in these times.
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- Daniel 11:4 For when his estate was most flourishing, he overcame himself with drink, and so fell into a disease: or as some write, was poisoned by Cassander.
- Daniel 11:4 For his twelve chief Princes first divided his kingdom among themselves.
- Daniel 11:4 After this his Monarchy was divided into four: for Seleucus had Syria, Antigonus Asia minor, Cassander the kingdom of Macedonia, and Ptolemy Egypt.
- Daniel 11:4 Thus God revenged Alexander’s ambition and cruelty in causing his posterity to be murdered, partly of the father’s chief friends, and partly one of another.
- Daniel 11:4 None of these four shall be able to be compared to the power of Alexander.
- Daniel 11:4 That is, his posterity having no part thereof.
- Daniel 11:5 To wit, Ptolemy king of Egypt.
- Daniel 11:5 That is, Antiochus the son of Seleucus, and one of Alexander’s princes shall be more mighty: for he should have both Asia and Syria.
- Daniel 11:6 That is, Berenice the daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus shall be given in marriage to Antiochus Theos, thinking by this affinity that Syria and Egypt should have a continual peace together.
- Daniel 11:6 That force and strength shall not continue: for soon after Berenice and her young son after her husband’s death, was slain of her stepson Seleucus Callinicus the son of Laodice, the lawful wife of Antiochus, but put away for this woman’s sake.
- Daniel 11:6 Neither Ptolemy nor Antiochus.
- Daniel 11:6 Some read, seed, meaning, the child begotten of Berenice.
- Daniel 11:6 Some read, she that begate her, and thereby understand her nurse, which brought her up: so that all they that were occasion of this marriage, were destroyed.
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