10But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.
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The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.
Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-20)Here are foretold, I. The rise and power of two great kingdoms out of the remains of Alexander’s conquests, Dan. 11:5. 1. The kingdom of Egypt, which was made considerable by Ptolemaeus Lagus, one of Alexander’s captains, whose successors were, from him, called the Lagidae . He is called the king of the south , that is, Egypt, named here, Dan. 11:8 , 42 , 43 . The countries that at first belonged…
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