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Then he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.
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A Precisely Fulfilled Prophecy
Commentators are unanimous that this verse accurately predicts the end of the powerful king Antiochus the Great. After a major defeat by the Romans, he retreated to his own territory. His end came when he tried to plunder a pagan temple at Elymais to pay his war debts, which provoked the local people to rise up and kill him, fulfilling the prophecy that he would 'stumble and fall, and not be found.'
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land—The strong fortifications of his own land—for the Hebrew word is in the plural…
19th Century
Anglican
The fort.— The king of the north is forced to take refuge in his fortresses, and here meets with his end. This is interpreted as t…
16th Century
Protestant
Here, either the ignominious end of Antiochus is indicated, who was killed in a popular uprising while plundering the temple of Belus, or else the …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then he shall turn his face towards the fort of his own land , &c.] After his defeat he fled with a few to Sardis, a…
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…