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silver and gold; and he shall continue more peaceably, even into the richest places of the
years than the king of the North. province; and he shall do what his fathers
9 “Also the king of the North shall come to the have not done, nor his forefathers: he shall
kingdom of the king of the South, but shall disperse among them the plunder, spoil, and
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return to his own land. However his sons riches; and he shall devise his plans against
shall stir up strife, and assemble a multitude of the strongholds, but only for a time.
great forces; and one shall certainly come and 25 “He shall stir up his power and his courage
overwhelm and pass through; then he shall against the king of the South with a great
return to his fortress and stir up strife. army. And the king of the South shall be
11 “And the king of the South shall be moved stirred up to battle with a very great and
with rage, and go out and fight with him, with mighty army; but he shall not stand, for they
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the king of the North, who shall muster a shall devise plans against him. Yes, those
great multitude; but the multitude shall be who eat of the portion of his delicacies shall
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given into the hand of his enemy. When he destroy him; his army shall be swept away,
has taken away the multitude, his heart will be and many shall fall down slain. Both these
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lifted up; and he will cast down tens of thou- kings’ hearts shall be bent on evil, and they
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sands, but he will not prevail. For the king of shall speak lies at the same table; but it shall
the North will return and muster a multitude not prosper, for the end will still be at the ap-
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greater than the former, and shall certainly pointed time. While returning to his land with
come at the end of some years with a great great riches, his heart shall be moved against
army and much equipment. the holy covenant; so he shall do damage and
14 “Now in those times many shall rise up return to his own land.
against the king of the South. Also, violent 29 “At the appointed time he shall return and
men of your people shall exalt themselves in go toward the south; but it shall not be like the
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fulfillment of the vision, but they shall fall. So former or the latter. For ships from Cyprus
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the king of the North shall come and build a shall come against him; therefore he shall be
siege mound, and take a fortified city; and the grieved, and return in rage against the holy
forces of the South shall not withstand him. covenant, and do damage.
Even his choice troops shall have no strength “So he shall return and show regard for
to resist. But he who comes against him shall those who forsake the holy covenant. And
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do according to his own will, and no one shall forces shall be mustered by him, and they
stand against him. He shall stand in the Glorious shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they
Land with destruction in his power. shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place
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17 “He shall also set his face to enter with the there the abomination of desolation. Those
strength of his whole kingdom, and upright who do wickedly against the covenant he shall
ones with him; thus shall he do. And he shall
give him the daughter of women to destroy it;
but she shall not stand with him, or be for him.
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lands, and shall take many. But a ruler shall 11:31 defile the sanctuary. Antiochus’s soldiers,
bring the reproach against them to an end; no doubt working with apostate Jews,guarded
and with the reproach removed, he shall turn the temple, halting all worship, while others
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back on him. Then he shall turn his face attacked the city on the Sabbath, slaughtering
toward the fortress of his own land; but he men, women, and children. Soldiers desecrated
shall stumble and fall, and not be found. Israel’s temple, banned circumcision and daily
20 “There shall arise in his place one who sacrifices (1 Macc. 1:44–54), and sacrificed a pig
imposes taxes on the glorious kingdom; but on the altar.The Syrians on Chislev (Dec.15,167
B.C.) even imposed an idol statue in honor of the
within a few days he shall be destroyed, but Olympian god Zeus into the temple.Jews called
not in anger or in battle. And in his place it “the abomination that causes desolation,”i.e.,
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shall arise a vile person, to whom they will not emptying or ruining for Jewish worship.abom-
give the honor of royalty; but he shall come in ination of desolation. Antiochus’s soldiers pro-
peaceably, and seize the kingdom by intrigue. faned God’s temple by spreading sow’s broth
22 With the force of a flood they shall be swept on the altar and banning daily sacrifices (8:14) as
away from before him and be broken, and also described in 1 Maccabees 1:44–54. Both Daniel
the prince of the covenant. And after the and Jesus said this atrocity was only a preview
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league is made with him he shall act deceitful- of the abomination that would happen later
ly, for he shall come up and become strong under the final Antichrist (9:27;Matt.24:15).
with a small number of people. He shall enter
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