Albert Barnes Commentary Daniel 11:8

"And also their gods, with their molten images, [and] with their goodly vessels of silver and of gold, shall he carry captive into Egypt; and he shall refrain some years from the king of the north." — Daniel 11:8 (ASV)

And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods ... - That is, their idols. Jerome (in loc.) says that Ptolemy, on his return, took with him forty thousand talents of silver, a vast number of precious vessels of gold, and two thousand four hundred images. Among these were many of the Egyptian idols that Cambyses, during his conquest of Egypt, had carried into Persia.

Ptolemy restored these to the temples to which they belonged, and by this act, he much endeared himself to his people. It was on account of the service that he thus rendered to his country that he was called Euergetes—that is, the Benefactor (Prideaux, iii. 121).

In 1631, an inscription on an ancient marble in honor of this action of Euergetes was published by Allatius: “Sacris quoe ab Egypto Persoe abstulerant receptis, ac cum reliqua congesta gaza in Egyptum relatis” (Wintle).

And he shall continue more years than the king of the north - Ptolemy Euergetes survived Seleucus by about four years (Prideaux, iii. 122). He reigned for twenty-five years.