11Daniel 11

1He is responsible for helping and defending me.Select Daniel 11:1

2And what I am now going to tell you is true.” The angel said, “Three more kings will rule over Persia, followed by a fourth, who will be richer than all the others. At the height of his power and wealth he will challenge the kingdom of Greece.Select Daniel 11:2

The Kingdoms of Egypt and Syria

3“Then a heroic king will appear. He will rule over a huge empire and do whatever he wants.Select Daniel 11:3

4But at the height of his power his empire will break up and be divided into four parts. Kings not descended from him will rule in his place, but they will not have the power that he had.Select Daniel 11:4

5“The king of Egypt will be strong. One of his generals, however, will be even stronger and rule a greater kingdom.Select Daniel 11:5

6After a number of years the king of Egypt will make an alliance with the king of Syria and give him his daughter in marriage. But the alliance will not last, and she, her husband, her child, and the servants who went with her will all be killed.Select Daniel 11:6

7Soon afterward one of her relatives will become king. He will attack the army of the king of Syria, enter their fortress, and defeat them.Select Daniel 11:7

8He will carry back to Egypt the images of their gods and the articles of gold and silver dedicated to those gods. After several years of peaceSelect Daniel 11:8

9the king of Syria will invade Egypt, but he will be forced to retreat.Select Daniel 11:9

10“The sons of the king of Syria will prepare for war and gather a large army. One of them will sweep on like a flood and attack an enemy fortress.Select Daniel 11:10

11In his anger the king of Egypt will go to war against the king of Syria and capture his huge army.Select Daniel 11:11

12He will be proud of his victory and of the many soldiers he has killed, but he will not continue to be victorious.Select Daniel 11:12

13“The king of Syria will go back and gather a larger army than he had before. When the proper time comes, he will return with a large, well-equipped army.Select Daniel 11:13

14Then many people will rebel against the king of Egypt. And some violent people from your nation, Daniel, will rebel because of a vision they have seen, but they will be defeated.Select Daniel 11:14

15So the king of Syria will lay siege to a fortified city and capture it. The soldiers of Egypt will not continue to fight; even the best of them will not have enough strength.Select Daniel 11:15

16The Syrian invader will do with them as he pleases, without opposition. He will stand in the Promised Land and have it completely in his power.Select Daniel 11:16

17“The king of Syria will plan an expedition, using his whole army. Then, in order to destroy his enemy's kingdom, he will make an alliance with him and offer him his daughter in marriage; but his plan will not succeed.Select Daniel 11:17

18After that he will attack the nations by the sea and conquer many of them. But a foreign leader will defeat him and put an end to his arrogance; indeed he will turn the arrogance of Syria's king back on him.Select Daniel 11:18

19The king will return to the fortresses of his own land, but he will be defeated, and that will be the end of him.Select Daniel 11:19

20“He will be followed by another king, who will send an officer to oppress the people with taxes in order to increase the wealth of his kingdom. In a short time that king will be killed, but not publicly and not in battle.”Select Daniel 11:20

The Evil King of Syria

21The angel went on to explain: “The next king of Syria will be an evil man who has no right to be king, but he will come unexpectedly and seize power by trickery.Select Daniel 11:21

22Anyone who opposes him, even God's High Priest, will be swept away and wiped out.Select Daniel 11:22

23By making treaties, he will deceive other nations, and he will grow stronger and stronger, even though he rules only a small nation.Select Daniel 11:23

24He will invade a wealthy province without warning and will do things that none of his ancestors ever did. Then he will divide among his followers the goods and property he has captured in war. He will make plans to attack fortresses, but his time will soon run out.Select Daniel 11:24

25“He will boldly raise a large army to attack the king of Egypt, who will prepare to fight back with a huge and powerful army. But the king of Egypt will be deceived and will not be successful.Select Daniel 11:25

26His closest advisers will ruin him. Many of his soldiers will be killed, and his army will be wiped out.Select Daniel 11:26

27Then the two kings will sit down to eat at the same table, but their motives will be evil, and they will lie to each other. They will not get what they want, because the time for it has not yet come.Select Daniel 11:27

28The king of Syria will return home with all the loot he has captured, determined to destroy the religion of God's people. He will do as he pleases and then return to his own land.Select Daniel 11:28

29“Later on he will invade Egypt again, but this time things will turn out differently.Select Daniel 11:29

30The Romans will come in ships and oppose him, and he will be frightened. “Then he will turn back in a rage and try to destroy the religion of God's people. He will follow the advice of those who have abandoned that religion.Select Daniel 11:30

31Some of his soldiers will make the Temple ritually unclean. They will stop the daily sacrifices and set up The Awful Horror.Select Daniel 11:31

32By deceit the king will win the support of those who have already abandoned their religion, but those who follow God will fight back.Select Daniel 11:32

33Wise leaders of the people will share their wisdom with many others. But for a while some of them will be killed in battle or be burned to death, and some will be robbed and made prisoners.Select Daniel 11:33

34While the killing is going on, God's people will receive a little help, even though many who join them will do so for selfish reasons.Select Daniel 11:34

35Some of those wise leaders will be killed, but as a result of this the people will be purified. This will continue until the end comes, the time that God has set.Select Daniel 11:35

36“The king of Syria will do as he pleases. He will boast that he is greater than any god, superior even to the Supreme God. He will be able to do this until the time when God punishes him. God will do exactly what he has planned.Select Daniel 11:36

37The king will ignore the god his ancestors served, and also the god that women love. In fact, he will ignore every god, because he will think he is greater than any of them.Select Daniel 11:37

38Instead, he will honor the god who protects fortresses. He will offer gold, silver, jewels, and other rich gifts to a god his ancestors never worshiped.Select Daniel 11:38

39To defend his fortresses, he will use people who worship a foreign god. He will give great honor to those who accept him as ruler, put them into high offices, and give them land as a reward.Select Daniel 11:39

40“When the king of Syria's final hour has almost come, the king of Egypt will attack him, and the king of Syria will fight back with all his power, using chariots, horses, and many ships. He will invade many countries, like the waters of a flood.Select Daniel 11:40

41He will even invade the Promised Land and kill tens of thousands, but the countries of Edom, Moab, and what is left of Ammon will escape.Select Daniel 11:41

42When he invades all those countries, even Egypt will not be spared.Select Daniel 11:42

43He will take away Egypt's hidden treasures of gold and silver and its other prized possessions. He will conquer Libya and Ethiopia.Select Daniel 11:43

44Then news that comes from the east and the north will frighten him, and he will fight furiously, killing many people.Select Daniel 11:44

45He will even set up his huge royal tents between the sea and the mountain on which the Temple stands. But he will die, with no one there to help him.”Select Daniel 11:45