⁴⁰ “At the end time the king of the South will push and attack him (the Antichrist), and the king of the North will storm against him with chariots and horsemen and with many ships; and he will enter countries, overwhelm them and pass through. ⁴¹ He shall also enter the Beautiful and Glorious Land (Israel), and many countries will fall, but these will be rescued out of his hand: Edom, Moab, and the foremost [core] of the people of Ammon. ⁴² Then he will stretch out his hand against other countries, but Egypt will not be among the ones which escape. ⁴³ He will have power over the treasures of gold and silver and over all the precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans and the Ethiopians will follow in his footsteps. ⁴⁴ But rumors from the east and from the north will alarm and disturb him, and he will set out with great fury to destroy and to annihilate many. ⁴⁵ He will pitch his palatial tents between the seas and the glorious Holy Mountain (Zion); yet he will come to his end with no one to help him [in his final battle with God].^(A)