Daniel 11:20-39
1599 Geneva Bible
20 [a]Then shall stand up in his place in the glory of the kingdom, one that shall raise taxes: but after few days he shall be destroyed, neither in [b]wrath, nor in battle.
21 And in his place shall stand up a [c]vile person, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
22 And the [d]arms shall be overthrown with a flood before him, and shall be broken: and also the prince of the [e]covenant.
23 And after [f]the league made with him, he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and overcome with a [g]small people.
24 He shall enter into the quiet and plentiful province, and he shall do that which his fathers [h]have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers: he shall divide among them the prey and the spoil, and the substance, yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strongholds, even for a [i]time.
25 Also he shall stir up his power, and his courage against the King of the South with a great army, and the King of the South shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army: but he shall not [j]stand: for they shall forecast and practice against him.
26 Yea, they that feed of the portion of [k]his meat, shall destroy him: and his army [l]shall overflow: and many shall fall, and be slain.
27 And both these Kings’ hearts shall be to do [m]mischief, and they shall talk of deceit at one table: but it shall not avail: for [n]yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
28 Then shall he return into his land with great [o]substance: for his heart shall be against the holy covenant: so shall he do and return to his own land.
29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the South: but the last shall not be as the first.
30 For the ships [p]of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be sorry and return and fret against the holy covenant: so shall he do, he shall even return [q]and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.
31 And arms [r]shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the Sanctuary [s]of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall set up the abominable desolation.
32 And such as wickedly [t]break the covenant, shall he cause to sin by flattery: but the people that do know their God, shall prevail and prosper.
33 And they that understand among the [u]people, shall instruct many: [v]yet they shall fall by sword, and by flame, by captivity and by spoil many days.
34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a [w]little help: but many shall cleave unto them [x]feignedly.
35 And some of them [y]of understanding shall fall to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, till the time be out: for there is a time appointed.
36 And the [z]king shall do what him list: he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself against all, that is God, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper, till the wrath [aa]be accomplished: for the determination is made.
37 Neither shall he regard the [ab]God of his fathers, nor the desires [ac]of women, nor care for any God: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his place shall he honor the [ad]god Mauzzim, and the god whom his fathers knew not, shall he honor with [ae]gold and with silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in [af]the holds of Mauzzim with a strange god whom he shall acknowledge: he shall increase his glory, and shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
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- Daniel 11:20 That is, Seleucus shall succeed his father Antiochus.
- Daniel 11:20 Not by foreign enemies, or battle, but by treason.
- Daniel 11:21 Which was Antiochus Epiphanes, who as is thought was the occasion of Seleucus his brother’s death, and was of a vile, cruel and flattering nature, and defrauded his brother’s son of the kingdom, and usurped the kingdom without the consent of the people.
- Daniel 11:22 He showeth that great foreign powers shall come to help the young son of Seleucus against his uncle Antiochus: and yet shall be overthrown.
- Daniel 11:22 Meaning, Ptolemais Philopater’s son who was this child’s cousin germane, and is here called the prince of the covenant, because he was the chief, and all others followed his conduct.
- Daniel 11:23 For after the battle Philometor and his uncle Antiochus made a league.
- Daniel 11:23 For he came upon him at unawares, and when he suspected his uncle Antiochus nothing.
- Daniel 11:24 Meaning, in Egypt.
- Daniel 11:24 He will content himself with the small holds for a time, but ever labor by craft to attain to the chiefest.
- Daniel 11:25 He shall be overcome with treason.
- Daniel 11:26 Signifying his princes and the chief about him.
- Daniel 11:26 Declaring that his soldiers shall brast out and venture their life to slay and to be slain for the safeguard of their prince.
- Daniel 11:27 The uncle and the nephew shall take truce, and banquet together, yet in their hearts they shall imagine mischief one against the other.
- Daniel 11:27 Signifying, that it standeth not in the counsel of men to bring things to pass, but in the providence of God, who ruleth the Kings by a secret bridle, that they cannot do what they list themselves.
- Daniel 11:28 Which he shall take of the Jews in spoiling Jerusalem and the Temple, and this is told them before to move them to patience, knowing that all things are done by God’s providence.
- Daniel 11:30 That is, the Roman power shall come against him: for P. Popilius the Ambassador appointed him to depart in the Romans’ name, to which thing he obeyed, although with grief, and to revenge his rage he came against the people of God the second time.
- Daniel 11:30 With the Jews which shall forsake the covenant of the Lord: for first he was called against the Jews by Jason the high Priest, and this second time by Menelaus.
- Daniel 11:31 A great faction of the wicked Jews shall hold with Antiochus.
- Daniel 11:31 So called because the power of God was nothing diminished, although this tyrant set up in the Temple the image of Jupiter Olympius, and so began to corrupt the pure service of God.
- Daniel 11:32 Meaning, such as bare the name of Jews, but indeed were nothing less, for they sold their souls, and betrayed their brethren for gain.
- Daniel 11:33 They that remain constant among the people shall teach others by their example, and edify many in the true religion.
- Daniel 11:33 Whereby he exhorteth the godly to constancy, although they should perish a thousand times, and though their miseries endure never so long.
- Daniel 11:34 As God will not leave his Church destitute, yet will he not deliver it all at once, but so help, as they may still seem to fight under the cross, as he did in the time of the Maccabees, whereof he here prophesieth.
- Daniel 11:34 That is, there shall be even of this small number many hypocrites.
- Daniel 11:35 To wit, of them that fear God and will lose their life for the defense of true religion. Signifying also that the Church must continually be tried and purged, and ought to look for one persecution after another: for God hath appointed the time: therefore we must obey.
- Daniel 11:36 Because the Angel’s purpose is to show the whole course of the persecutions of the Jews unto the coming of Christ, he now speaketh of the Monarchy of the Romans which he noteth by the name of a King, who were without religion and condemned the true God.
- Daniel 11:36 So long the tyrants shall prevail as God hath appointed to punish his people: but he showeth that it is but for a time.
- Daniel 11:37 The Romans shall observe no certain form of religion as other nations, but shall change their gods at their pleasures, yea, contemn them and prefer themselves to their gods.
- Daniel 11:37 Signifying that they should be without all humanity: for the love of women is taken for singular or great love, as 2 Sam. 1:26.
- Daniel 11:38 That is, the god of power and riches: they shall esteem their own power above all their gods and worship it.
- Daniel 11:38 Under pretence of worshipping the gods, they shall enrich their city with the most precious jewels of all the world, because that hereby all men should have them in admiration for their power and riches.
- Daniel 11:39 Although in their hearts they had no religion, yet they did acknowledge the gods, and worshipped them in their temples, lest they should have been despised as Atheists: but this was to increase their fame and riches: and when they got any country, they so made others the rulers thereof, that the profit ever came to the Romans.
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