13For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches.
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Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.
And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times. …
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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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