Daniel 11:6-7

11:6 After some years have passed, they 1  will form an alliance. Then the daughter 2  of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement, but she will not retain her power, 3  nor will he continue 4  in his strength. 5  She, together with the one who brought her, her child, 6  and her benefactor will all be delivered over at that time. 7 

11:7 “There will arise in his 8  place one from her family line 9  who will come against their army and will enter the stronghold of the king of the north and will move against them successfully. 10 

Daniel 11:10-16

11:10 His sons 11  will wage war, mustering a large army which will advance like an overflowing river and carrying the battle all the way to the enemy’s 12  fortress. 13 

11:11 “Then the king of the south 14  will be enraged and will march out to fight against the king of the north, who will also muster a large army, but that army will be delivered into his hand. 11:12 When the army is taken away, the king of the south will become arrogant. 15  He will be responsible for the death 16  of thousands and thousands of people, 17  but he will not continue to prevail. 11:13 For the king of the north will again muster an army, one larger than before. At the end of some years he will advance with a huge army and enormous supplies.

11:14 “In those times many will oppose 18  the king of the south. 19  Those who are violent 20  among your own people will rise up in confirmation of 21  the vision, but they will falter. 11:15 Then the king of the north will advance and will build siege mounds and capture a well-fortified city. 22  The forces of the south will not prevail, not even his finest contingents. 23  They will have no strength to prevail. 11:16 The one advancing against him will do as he pleases, and no one will be able to stand before him. He will prevail in the beautiful land, and its annihilation will be within his power. 24 

Daniel 11:27-29

11:27 These two kings, their minds 25  filled with evil intentions, will trade 26  lies with one another at the same table. But it will not succeed, for there is still an end at the appointed time. 11:28 Then the king of the north 27  will return to his own land with much property. His mind will be set against the holy covenant. He will take action, and then return to his own land. 11:29 At an appointed time he will again invade the south, but this latter visit will not turn out the way the former one did.

Daniel 11:40-45

11:40 “At the time of the end the king of the south will attack 28  him. Then the king of the north will storm against him 29  with chariots, horsemen, and a large armada of ships. 30  He 31  will invade lands, passing through them like an overflowing river. 32  11:41 Then he will enter the beautiful land. 33  Many 34  will fall, but these will escape: 35  Edom, Moab, and the Ammonite leadership. 11:42 He will extend his power 36  against other lands; the land of Egypt will not escape. 11:43 He will have control over the hidden stores of gold and silver, as well as all the treasures of Egypt. Libyans and Ethiopians 37  will submit to him. 38  11:44 But reports will trouble him from the east and north, and he will set out in a tremendous rage to destroy and wipe out many. 11:45 He will pitch his royal tents between the seas 39  toward the beautiful holy mountain. But he will come to his end, with no one to help him.

1 sn Here they refers to Ptolemy II Philadelphus (ca. 285-246 B.C.) and Antiochus II Theos (ca. 262-246 B.C.).

2 sn The daughter refers to Berenice, who was given in marriage to Antiochus II Theos.

3 tn Heb “the strength of the arm.”

4 tn Heb “stand.” So also in vv. 7, 8, 11, 13.

5 tn Heb “and his arm.” Some understand this to refer to the descendants of the king of the north.

6 tc The present translation reads יַלְדָּה (yaldah, “her child”) rather than the MT יֹלְדָהּ (yolÿdah, “the one who begot her”). Cf. Theodotion, the Syriac, and the Vulgate.

7 sn Antiochus II eventually divorced Berenice and remarried his former wife Laodice, who then poisoned her husband, had Berenice put to death, and installed her own son, Seleucus II Callinicus (ca. 246-227 B.C.), as the Seleucid king.

8 sn The reference is to the king of Egypt.

9 tn Heb “the stock of her roots.”

sn The reference to one from her family line is probably to Berenice’s brother, Ptolemy III Euergetes (ca. 246-221 B.C.).

10 tn Heb “will deal with them and prevail.”

11 sn The sons of Seleucus II Callinicus were Seleucus III Ceraunus (ca. 227-223 B.C.) and Antiochus III the Great (ca. 223-187 B.C.).

12 tn Heb “his”; the referent (the enemy of the king of the north) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

13 tn Heb “and he will certainly come and overflow and cross over and return and be aroused unto a fortress.” The translation has attempted to simplify the syntax of this difficult sequence.

14 sn This king of the south refers to Ptolemy IV Philopator (ca. 221-204 B.C.).

15 tn Heb “his heart will be lifted up.” The referent (the king of the south) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

16 tn Heb “cause to fall.”

17 tn Heb “of myriads.”

18 tn Heb “stand against.”

19 sn This was Ptolemy V Epiphanes (ca. 203-181 B.C.).

20 tn Heb “sons of violence.” “Son(s) is sometimes used idiomatically in Hebrew to indicate that someone is characterized by a certain quality. So the expression “sons of violence” means that these individuals will be characterized by violent deeds.

21 tn Heb “to cause to stand.”

22 sn This well-fortified city is apparently Sidon. Its capture from the Ptolemies by Antiochus the Great was a strategic victory for the Seleucid kingdom.

23 tn Or “choice troops” (BDB 104 s.v. מִבְחָר), or “elite troops” (HALOT 542 s.v. מִבְחָר).

24 tn Heb “hand.”

25 tn Heb “heart.” So also in v. 28.

26 tn Heb “speak.”

27 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king of the north) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

28 tn Heb “engage in thrusting.”

29 tn The referent of the pronoun is most likely the king of the south, in which case the text describes the king of the north countering the attack of the king of the south.

30 tn Heb “many ships.”

31 tn This most likely refers to the king of the north who, in response to the aggression of the king of the south, launches an invasion of the southern regions.

32 tn Heb “and will overflow and pass over.”

33 sn The beautiful land is a cryptic reference to the land of Israel.

34 tn This can be understood as “many people” (cf. NRSV) or “many countries” (cf. NASB, NIV, NLT).

35 tn Heb “be delivered from his hand.”

36 tn Heb “hand.”

37 tn Or “Nubians” (NIV, NCV); Heb “Cushites.”

38 tn Heb “Libyans and Cushites [will be] at his footsteps.”

39 sn Presumably seas refers to the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea.