Daniel 11
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Also I in the first year of
Dari'us the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen
him.
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The King of the North
and the King of the South |
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And now will I show thee the truth.
Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the
fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength
through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of
Gre'cia.
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And a mighty king shall stand up, that
shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his
will.
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And when he shall stand up, his kingdom
shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of
heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion
which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others
besides those.
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And the king of the south shall be
strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above
him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great
dominion.
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And in the end of years they shall join
themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come
to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not
retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm:
but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that
begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.
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But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army,
and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and
shall deal against them, and shall prevail:
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and shall also carry captives into Egypt
their gods, with their princes, and with their precious
vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north.
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So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.
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But his sons shall be stirred up, and
shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall
certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he
return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.
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And the king of the south shall be moved
with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great
multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand.
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And when he hath taken away the
multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be strengthened by
it.
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For the king of the north shall return,
and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall
certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much
riches.
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And in those times there shall many
stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy
people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they
shall fall.
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So the king of the north shall come, and
cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of
the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.
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But he that cometh against him shall do
according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he
shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be
consumed.
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He shall also set his face to enter with
the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus
shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting
her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for
him.
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After this shall he turn his face unto
the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf
shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own
reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.
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Then he shall turn his face toward the
fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be
found.
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Then shall stand up in his estate a
raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few
days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in
battle.
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And in his estate shall stand up a vile
person, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom: but he
shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by
flatteries.
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And with the arms of a flood shall they
be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the
prince of the covenant.
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And after the league made with him
he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become
strong with a small people.
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He shall enter peaceably even upon the
fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which
his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall
scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and
he shall forecast his devices against the strongholds, even for a
time.
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And he shall stir up his power and his
courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the
king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great
and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast
devices against him.
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Yea, they that feed of the portion of his
meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall
fall down slain.
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And both these kings' hearts shall
be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but
it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time
appointed.
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Then shall he return into his land with
great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy
covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own
land.
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At the time appointed he shall return,
and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as
the latter.
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For the ships of Chittim shall come
against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have
indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even
return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy
covenant.
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And arms shall stand on his part, and
they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away
the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination
that maketh desolate. Dan. 9.27 ; 12.11 · Mt. 24.15 · Mk. 13.14
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And such as do wickedly against the
covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know
their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
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And they that understand among the people
shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame,
by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
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Now when they shall fall, they shall be
helped with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with
flatteries.
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And some of them of understanding
shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet
for a time appointed.
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And the king shall do according to his
will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every
god, 2.3, 4 and
shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, Rev.
13.5, 6 and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for
that that is determined shall be done.
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Neither shall he regard the God of his
fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall
magnify himself above all.
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But in his estate shall he honor the God
of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with
gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant
things.
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Thus shall he do in the most strongholds
with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase
with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall
divide the land for gain.
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And at the time of the end shall the
king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come
against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and
with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall
overflow and pass over.
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He shall enter also into the glorious
land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall
escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of
the children of Ammon.
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He shall stretch forth his hand also upon
the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
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But he shall have power over the
treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of
Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his
steps.
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But tidings out of the east and out of
the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great
fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.
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And he shall plant the tabernacles of his
palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall
come to his end, and none shall help him.
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