But his sons shall be stirred up — Margin, “or, war.” The Hebrew word (יתגרוּ yı̂th^eggârû — from גרה <…

His sons. The pronoun refers to the subject of Daniel 11:9, which is the northern king (though, according to the Septuagint and En…

Here the angel passes to the third war, namely, that which the son of Callinicus stirred up against Ptolemy Philopator. After the death of Euergete…

But his sons shall be stirred up
Not of the king of the south, or Egypt, but of the king of the north, or Syria; the…

The angel shows Daniel the succession of the Persian and Grecian empires. The kings of Egypt and Syria are mentioned; Judea was between their domin…