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11:1 “In the first year of Darius the Mede, ①I arose to be of ②assistance and a protection for him.
▷ ①Lit my standing up was ②Lit a strengthener
11:2 And now I will tell you the truth. Behold, three more kings are going to arise ①in Persia. Then a fourth will gain far more riches than all of them; as soon as he becomes strong through his riches, ②he will stir up the entire empire against the realm of ③Greece.
▷ ①Lit for ②Or they all will stir up the realm of Greece ③Heb Javan
11:3 And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great authority and do as he pleases.
11:4 But as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four ①points of the compass, though not to his own descendants, nor according to his authority which he wielded, because his sovereignty will be removed and given to others besides ②them.
▷ ①Lit winds of the heaven ②I.e., his descendants
11:5 “Then the king of the South will grow strong, ①along with one of his princes ②who will gain ascendancy over him and rule; his domain will be a great realm indeed.
▷ ①Lit and ②Lit and he
11:6 And after some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will come to the king of the North to reach an agreement. But she will not keep her ①position of power, nor will he remain with his ②power, but she will be given up, along with those who brought her in and the one who fathered her as well as he who supported her in those times.
▷ ①Lit strength of arm ②Lit arm
11:7 But one of the ①descendants of her line will arise in his place, and he will come against their army and enter the fortress of the king of the North, and he will deal with them and prevail.
▷ ①Lit branch of her roots
11:8 And he will also take into captivity to Egypt their gods with their cast metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold, and he on his part will ①refrain from attacking the king of the North for some years.
▷ ①Lit stand from the king
11:9 Then ①the latter will enter the realm of the king of the South, but will return to his own land.
▷ ①Lit he will, and so throughout the ch
11:10 “And his sons will mobilize and assemble a multitude of great forces; and one of them will keep on coming and overflow and pass through, so that he may ①again wage war up to his fortress.
▷ ①Or return and wage
11:11 And the king of the South will be enraged and go out and fight ①with the king of the North. Then the latter will raise a great multitude, but that multitude will be handed over to ②the former.
▷ ①Lit with him, with ②Lit his hand
11:12 When the multitude is carried away, his heart will ①be haughty, and he will cause tens of thousands to fall; yet he will not prevail.
▷ ①Lit rise
11:13 For the king of the North will again raise a greater multitude than the former, and ①after an interval of some years he will ②press on with a great army and much equipment.
▷ ①Lit at the end of the times, years ②Or keep on coming
11:14 “Now in those times many will rise up against the king of the South; the violent ones among your people will also raise themselves up to fulfill the vision, but they will ①fall down.
▷ ①Lit stumble, and so throughout the ch
11:15 Then the king of the North will come, pile up an assault ramp, and capture a well-fortified city; and the forces of the South will not stand their ground, not even ①their choicest troops, for there will be no strength to make a stand.
▷ ①Lit the people of its choice ones
11:16 But he who comes against him will do as he pleases, and no one will be able to withstand him; he will also stay for a time in the ①Beautiful Land, with destruction in his hand.
▷ ①I.e., Israel
11:17 And he will set his ①mind on coming with the power of his entire kingdom, ②bringing with him ③a proposal of peace which he will put into effect; he will also give him the daughter of women to ruin it. But she will not take a stand for him or be ④on his side.
▷ ①Lit face ②Lit and ③Lit equitable things ④Lit for him; i.e., for her father
11:18 Then he will turn his face to the coastlands and capture many. But a commander will put a stop to his taunting against him; moreover, he will repay him for his taunting.
11:19 So he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and not be found.
11:20 “Then in his place one will arise who will allow an ①oppressor to pass through the ②Jewel of his kingdom; yet within a few days he will be broken, though not in anger nor in battle.
▷ ①Or tax collector ②Lit splendor; i.e., prob. Jerusalem and its temple
11:21 And in his place a despicable person will arise, on whom the majesty of kingship has not been conferred; but he will come in a time of tranquility and seize the kingdom by intrigue.
11:22 And the overflowing forces will be flooded away from him and smashed, and also the prince of the covenant.
11:23 After an alliance is made with him he will practice deception, and he will go up and gain power with a small force of people.
11:24 ①In a time of tranquility he will enter the richest parts of the ②realm, and he will accomplish what his fathers did not, nor his ③ancestors; he will distribute plunder, spoils, and possessions among them, and he will devise his schemes against strongholds, but only for a time.
▷ ①Lit In tranquility and the rich...he will enter ②Lit province ③Lit fathers’ fathers
11:25 And he will stir up his strength and ①courage against the king of the South with a large army; so the king of the South will mobilize an extremely large and mighty army for war; but he will not stand, because schemes will be devised against him.
▷ ①Lit heart
11:26 Those who eat his choice food will ①destroy him, and his army will ②overflow, but many will fall down slain.
▷ ①Lit break ②Or be swept away, and many
11:27 As for both kings, their hearts will be intent on evil, and they will speak lies to each other at the same table; but it will not succeed, because the end is still to come at the appointed time.
11:28 Then he will return to his land with much ①plunder; but his heart will be set against the holy covenant, and he will take action and then return to his own land.
▷ ①Lit property
11:29 “At the appointed time he will return and come into the South, but ①this last time it will not turn out the way it did before.
▷ ①Lit it will not happen as the first and as the last
11:30 For ships of ①Kittim will come against him; therefore he will withdraw in fear and will return and curse the holy covenant and take action; so he will come back and pay attention to those who abandon the holy covenant.
▷ ①I.e., Cyprus
11:31 Forces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the abomination ①of desolation.
▷ ①Lit that makes desolate; or that causes horror
11:32 And by smooth words he will ①turn to godlessness those who act wickedly toward the covenant, but the people who know their God will be strong and take action.
▷ ①Or ruin those
11:33 And ①those who have insight among the people will give understanding to the many; yet they will fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder for many days.
▷ ①Or instructors of the people will
11:34 Now when they fall they will be granted a little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy.
11:35 And some of ①those who have insight will fall, to refine, purge, and ②cleanse them until the end time; because it is still to come at the appointed time.
▷ ①Or the instructors ②Or whiten
11:36 “Then the king will do as he pleases, and he will exalt himself and boast against every god and will speak ①dreadful things against the God of gods; and he will be successful until the indignation is finished, because that which is determined will be done.
▷ ①Or amazing
11:37 And he will show no regard for the ①gods of his fathers or for the ②desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will boast against them all.
▷ ①Or God ②Or darling of
11:38 But ①instead he will honor a god of fortresses, a god whom his fathers did not know; he will honor him with gold, silver, precious stones, and treasures.
▷ ①Lit in his place
11:39 And he will take action against the strongest of fortresses with the help of a foreign god; he will give great honor to ①those who acknowledge him and will make them rulers over the many, and will parcel out land for a price.
▷ ①Lit the one who acknowledges
11:40 “And at the end time the king of the South will wage war with him, and the king of the North will storm against him with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships; and he will enter countries, overflow them, and pass through.
11:41 He will also enter the ①Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall; but these will be rescued out of his hand: Edom, Moab, and the foremost of the sons of Ammon.
▷ ①I.e., Israel
11:42 Then he will reach out with his hand against other countries, and the land of Egypt will not escape.
11:43 But he will ①gain control over the hidden treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and Libyans and Ethiopians will follow at his ②heels.
▷ ①Lit rule over ②Lit footsteps
11:44 But rumors from the East and from the North will terrify him, and he will go out with great wrath to eliminate and ①annihilate many.
▷ ①Lit devote many to destruction
11:45 And he will pitch the tents of his royal pavilion between the seas and the beautiful Holy Mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.
▷ ①Lit my standing up was ②Lit a strengthener
11:2 And now I will tell you the truth. Behold, three more kings are going to arise ①in Persia. Then a fourth will gain far more riches than all of them; as soon as he becomes strong through his riches, ②he will stir up the entire empire against the realm of ③Greece.
▷ ①Lit for ②Or they all will stir up the realm of Greece ③Heb Javan
11:3 And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great authority and do as he pleases.
11:4 But as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four ①points of the compass, though not to his own descendants, nor according to his authority which he wielded, because his sovereignty will be removed and given to others besides ②them.
▷ ①Lit winds of the heaven ②I.e., his descendants
11:5 “Then the king of the South will grow strong, ①along with one of his princes ②who will gain ascendancy over him and rule; his domain will be a great realm indeed.
▷ ①Lit and ②Lit and he
11:6 And after some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will come to the king of the North to reach an agreement. But she will not keep her ①position of power, nor will he remain with his ②power, but she will be given up, along with those who brought her in and the one who fathered her as well as he who supported her in those times.
▷ ①Lit strength of arm ②Lit arm
11:7 But one of the ①descendants of her line will arise in his place, and he will come against their army and enter the fortress of the king of the North, and he will deal with them and prevail.
▷ ①Lit branch of her roots
11:8 And he will also take into captivity to Egypt their gods with their cast metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold, and he on his part will ①refrain from attacking the king of the North for some years.
▷ ①Lit stand from the king
11:9 Then ①the latter will enter the realm of the king of the South, but will return to his own land.
▷ ①Lit he will, and so throughout the ch
11:10 “And his sons will mobilize and assemble a multitude of great forces; and one of them will keep on coming and overflow and pass through, so that he may ①again wage war up to his fortress.
▷ ①Or return and wage
11:11 And the king of the South will be enraged and go out and fight ①with the king of the North. Then the latter will raise a great multitude, but that multitude will be handed over to ②the former.
▷ ①Lit with him, with ②Lit his hand
11:12 When the multitude is carried away, his heart will ①be haughty, and he will cause tens of thousands to fall; yet he will not prevail.
▷ ①Lit rise
11:13 For the king of the North will again raise a greater multitude than the former, and ①after an interval of some years he will ②press on with a great army and much equipment.
▷ ①Lit at the end of the times, years ②Or keep on coming
11:14 “Now in those times many will rise up against the king of the South; the violent ones among your people will also raise themselves up to fulfill the vision, but they will ①fall down.
▷ ①Lit stumble, and so throughout the ch
11:15 Then the king of the North will come, pile up an assault ramp, and capture a well-fortified city; and the forces of the South will not stand their ground, not even ①their choicest troops, for there will be no strength to make a stand.
▷ ①Lit the people of its choice ones
11:16 But he who comes against him will do as he pleases, and no one will be able to withstand him; he will also stay for a time in the ①Beautiful Land, with destruction in his hand.
▷ ①I.e., Israel
11:17 And he will set his ①mind on coming with the power of his entire kingdom, ②bringing with him ③a proposal of peace which he will put into effect; he will also give him the daughter of women to ruin it. But she will not take a stand for him or be ④on his side.
▷ ①Lit face ②Lit and ③Lit equitable things ④Lit for him; i.e., for her father
11:18 Then he will turn his face to the coastlands and capture many. But a commander will put a stop to his taunting against him; moreover, he will repay him for his taunting.
11:19 So he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and not be found.
11:20 “Then in his place one will arise who will allow an ①oppressor to pass through the ②Jewel of his kingdom; yet within a few days he will be broken, though not in anger nor in battle.
▷ ①Or tax collector ②Lit splendor; i.e., prob. Jerusalem and its temple
11:21 And in his place a despicable person will arise, on whom the majesty of kingship has not been conferred; but he will come in a time of tranquility and seize the kingdom by intrigue.
11:22 And the overflowing forces will be flooded away from him and smashed, and also the prince of the covenant.
11:23 After an alliance is made with him he will practice deception, and he will go up and gain power with a small force of people.
11:24 ①In a time of tranquility he will enter the richest parts of the ②realm, and he will accomplish what his fathers did not, nor his ③ancestors; he will distribute plunder, spoils, and possessions among them, and he will devise his schemes against strongholds, but only for a time.
▷ ①Lit In tranquility and the rich...he will enter ②Lit province ③Lit fathers’ fathers
11:25 And he will stir up his strength and ①courage against the king of the South with a large army; so the king of the South will mobilize an extremely large and mighty army for war; but he will not stand, because schemes will be devised against him.
▷ ①Lit heart
11:26 Those who eat his choice food will ①destroy him, and his army will ②overflow, but many will fall down slain.
▷ ①Lit break ②Or be swept away, and many
11:27 As for both kings, their hearts will be intent on evil, and they will speak lies to each other at the same table; but it will not succeed, because the end is still to come at the appointed time.
11:28 Then he will return to his land with much ①plunder; but his heart will be set against the holy covenant, and he will take action and then return to his own land.
▷ ①Lit property
11:29 “At the appointed time he will return and come into the South, but ①this last time it will not turn out the way it did before.
▷ ①Lit it will not happen as the first and as the last
11:30 For ships of ①Kittim will come against him; therefore he will withdraw in fear and will return and curse the holy covenant and take action; so he will come back and pay attention to those who abandon the holy covenant.
▷ ①I.e., Cyprus
11:31 Forces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the abomination ①of desolation.
▷ ①Lit that makes desolate; or that causes horror
11:32 And by smooth words he will ①turn to godlessness those who act wickedly toward the covenant, but the people who know their God will be strong and take action.
▷ ①Or ruin those
11:33 And ①those who have insight among the people will give understanding to the many; yet they will fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder for many days.
▷ ①Or instructors of the people will
11:34 Now when they fall they will be granted a little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy.
11:35 And some of ①those who have insight will fall, to refine, purge, and ②cleanse them until the end time; because it is still to come at the appointed time.
▷ ①Or the instructors ②Or whiten
11:36 “Then the king will do as he pleases, and he will exalt himself and boast against every god and will speak ①dreadful things against the God of gods; and he will be successful until the indignation is finished, because that which is determined will be done.
▷ ①Or amazing
11:37 And he will show no regard for the ①gods of his fathers or for the ②desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will boast against them all.
▷ ①Or God ②Or darling of
11:38 But ①instead he will honor a god of fortresses, a god whom his fathers did not know; he will honor him with gold, silver, precious stones, and treasures.
▷ ①Lit in his place
11:39 And he will take action against the strongest of fortresses with the help of a foreign god; he will give great honor to ①those who acknowledge him and will make them rulers over the many, and will parcel out land for a price.
▷ ①Lit the one who acknowledges
11:40 “And at the end time the king of the South will wage war with him, and the king of the North will storm against him with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships; and he will enter countries, overflow them, and pass through.
11:41 He will also enter the ①Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall; but these will be rescued out of his hand: Edom, Moab, and the foremost of the sons of Ammon.
▷ ①I.e., Israel
11:42 Then he will reach out with his hand against other countries, and the land of Egypt will not escape.
11:43 But he will ①gain control over the hidden treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and Libyans and Ethiopians will follow at his ②heels.
▷ ①Lit rule over ②Lit footsteps
11:44 But rumors from the East and from the North will terrify him, and he will go out with great wrath to eliminate and ①annihilate many.
▷ ①Lit devote many to destruction
11:45 And he will pitch the tents of his royal pavilion between the seas and the beautiful Holy Mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.