Daniel 8:9

8:9 From one of them came a small horn. 1  But it grew to be very big, toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land. 2 

Daniel 11:45

11:45 He will pitch his royal tents between the seas 3  toward the beautiful holy mountain. But he will come to his end, with no one to help him.

1 sn This small horn is Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who controlled the Seleucid kingdom from ca. 175-164 B.C. Antiochus was extremely hostile toward the Jews and persecuted them mercilessly.

2 sn The expression the beautiful land (Heb. הַצֶּבִי [hatsÿvi] = “the beauty”) is a cryptic reference to the land of Israel. Cf. 11:16, 41, where it is preceded by the word אֶרֶץ (’erets, “land”).

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