Daniel 11:6-8
Evangelical Heritage Version
6 After some years, they will make an alliance. The daughter of the King of the South will come to the King of the North and make a fair agreement. However, she will not keep the strength of her arm, and he and his arm[a] will not endure. She will be given up—she and those who brought her, the one who fathered her,[b] and the one who strengthened her during these times.[c]
7 But one who is a branch from her root will arise in his place.[d] He will come against the army and come into the fortress of the King of the North. He will make war with them and win. 8 He will also take their gods captive to Egypt with their cast images and with their valuable silver and gold vessels. For some years he will leave the King of the North alone.
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- Daniel 11:6 Variant seed, that is, descendant. The words for arm and seed look very much alike in Hebrew.
- Daniel 11:6 Variant her child
- Daniel 11:6 The kings are Ptolemy II and Antiochus II. The daughter of Ptolemy is Bernice, who was married to Antiochus. Antiochus eventually divorced Bernice and remarried his former wife Laodice, who then poisoned Antiochus, killed Bernice, and installed her own son as Seleucus II.
- Daniel 11:7 Bernice’s brother, Ptolemy III, warred against Seleucus II.
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