For the king of the north shall return - That is, he shall come again into the regions of Coelo-Syria and Palestine, to recover the…

Shall return. In this and the next two verses, the reasons for the southern king's failure are mentioned. He returns some years after his …

Here the angel prophesies about other wars. For he first describes the war that was waged by Antiochus against the Egyptians, after the death of Ph…

For the king of the north shall return As Antiochus king of Syria did, upon the death of Ptolemy Philopator, who was succ…

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…