The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Daniel 11
1 “As forme, inthefirst year of Darius the
Mede,I stoodup to confirmand strengthen
him.
2 “Now I will show you the truth. Behold,
three more kings will stand up in Persia.
The fourth will be far richer than all of
them. When he has grown strong through
his riches, he will stir up all against the
realm of Greece.
3 A mighty king will stand up, who will
rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
4 Whenhe stands up, his kingdom will be
brokenand will be divided toward the four
winds of the sky, but not to his posterity,
nor according to his dominion with which
he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked
up, even for others besides these.
5 “The king of the south will be strong.
One of his princes will become stronger
than him, and have dominion. His dominion
will be a great dominion.
6 At the end of years they will join them selves
together; and the daughter of the
king of the south will come to the king of
the north to make an agreement, but she
will not retain the strength of her arm.
He will also not stand, nor will his arm;
but she will be given up, with those who
brought her, and he who became the father
of her, and he who strengthened her
in those times.
7 “But out of a shoot from her roots one
will stand up in his place, who will come to
the army and will enter into the fortress of
the king of the north, and will deal against
them and will prevail.
8 He will also carry their gods with their
molten images, and with their goodly vessels
of silver and of gold, captive into
Egypt. He will refrain some years from the
king of the north.
9 He will come into the realm of the king
ofthe south, buthe will returnintohis own
land.
10 His sons will wage war, and will
assemble a multitude of great forces which
will come on, and overflow, and pass
through. They will return and wage war,
even to his fortress.
11 “The king of the south will be moved
with anger and will come out and fight
with him, even with the king of the north.
He will send out a great multitude, and the
multitude will be given into his hand.
12 The multitude will be carried off, and
his heart will be exalted. He will cast down
tens of thousands, but he won’t prevail.
13 The king of the north will return, and
will send out a multitude greater than the
former. He will come on at the end of the
times, even of years, with a great army and
with abundant supplies.
14 “In those times many will stand up
against the king of the south. Also the children
of the violent among your people will
lift themselves up to establish the vision,
but they will fall.
15 So the king of the north will come and
cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified
city. The forces of the south won’t stand,
neither will his select troops, neither will
there be any strength to stand.
16 But he who comes against him will
do according to his own will, and no one
will stand before him. He will stand in the
glorious land, and destruction will be in
his hand.
17 He will set his face to come with the
strength of his whole kingdom, and with
him equitable conditions. He will perform
them. He will give him the daughter of
women, to destroy the kingdom, but she
will not stand, and won’t be for him.
18 After this he will turn his face to the
islands, and will take many, but a prince
will cause the reproach offered by him to
cease. Yes, moreover, he will cause his
reproach to turn on him.
19 Then he will turn his face toward the
fortresses of his own land; but he will
stumble and fall, and won’t be found.
20 “Then one who will cause a tax collector
to pass through the kingdom to maintain
its glory will stand up in his place; but
within few days he shall be destroyed, not
in anger, and not in battle.
21 “In his place a contemptible person
will stand up, to whom they had not given
the honor ofthe kingdom; but he will come
in time of security, and will obtain the
kingdom by flatteries.
22 The overwhelming forces will be over whelmed from
before him, and willbebroken. Yes, also the
prince of the covenant.
23 After the treaty made with him he will
work deceitfully; for he will come up and
will become strong with few people.
24 In time of security he will come even
on the fattest places of the province. He
will do that which his fathers have not
done, nor his fathers’ fathers. He will
scatter among them prey, plunder, and wealth.
Yes, he will devise his plans against the
strongholds, but only for a time.
25 “He will stir up his power and his
courage against the king of the south with
a great army; and the king of the south will
wage war in battle with an exceedingly
great and mighty army, but he won’t stand;
for they will devise plans against him.
26 Yes, those who eat of his delicacies will
destroy him, and his army will be swept
away. Many will fall down slain.
27 As for both these kings, their hearts
will be to do evil, and they will speak lies at
one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end
will still be at the appointed time.
28 Then he will return into his land with
great wealth. His heart will be against the
holy covenant. He will take action, and
return to his own land.
29 “He will return at the appointed time
and come into the south; but it won’t be in
the latter time as it was in the former.
30 For ships of Kittim will come against
him. Therefore he will be grieved, and will
return, and have indignation against the
holy covenant, and willtake action. He will
even return, and have regard to those who
forsake the holy covenant.
31 “Forces from him will profane the
sanctuary, even the fortress, and will take
away the continual burnt offering. Then
they will set up the abomination that
makes desolate.
32 He will corrupt those who do wickedly
against the covenant by flatteries; but the
people who know their God will be strong
and take action.
33 “Those who are wise among thepeople
will instruct many; yet they will fall by the
sword and by flame, by captivity and by
plunder, many days.
34 Now when they fall, they will be
helped with a little help; but many will join
themselves to them with flatteries.
35 Some of those who are wise will fall—
to refine them, and to purify, and to make
them white, even to the time of the end,
because it is yet for the time appointed.
36 “The king will do according to his will.
He will exalt himself and magnify himself
above every god, and will speakmarvelous
things against the God of gods. He will
prosper until the indignation is accomplished,
for that which is determined will
be done.
37 He won’t regardthe gods ofhis fathers,
or the desire of women, or regard any god;
for he will magnify himself above all.
38 But in their place, he will honor the
god of fortresses. He will honor a god
whom his fathers didn’t know with gold,
silver, and with precious stones and pleasant things.
39 He will deal with the strongest
fortresses by the help of a foreign god.
He will increase with glory whoever
acknowledges him. He will cause them to
rule over many, and will divide the land
for a price.
40 “At the time of the end the king of the
south will contend with him; and the king
of the north will come against him like a
whirlwind, with chariots, with horsemen,
and with many ships. He will enter into
the countries, and will overflow and pass
through.
41 He will enter also into the glorious
land, and many countries will be overthrown;
but these will be delivered out of
his hand: Edom, Moab, and the chief of the
children of Ammon.
42 He will also stretch out his hand on the
countries. The land of Egypt won’t escape.
43 But he will have power over the treasures of
gold and of silver, and over all the
precious things of Egypt. The Libyans and
the Ethiopians will follow his steps.
44 But news out of the east and out of the
north will trouble him; and he will go out
with great fury to destroy and utterly to
sweep away many.
45 He will plant the tents of his palace between
the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yethe
will come tohis end, andno one will help him.