Daniel 11:1-23 ▼

1 “ And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, my standing is for a strengthener and for a stronghold to him.

2 And now I declare to you the truth: Behold, yet three kings will be rising up in Persia; and the fourth will be rich, with greater riches than all. And according to his strength by his riches, he will rouse everyone against the kingdom of Javan.

3 And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great dominion, and he will do according to his will.

4 And according to his standing, his kingdom will be broken up and will be divided to the four winds of the heavens, not to his posterity, and not according to his dominion by which he ruled; for his kingdom will be uprooted, and unto others apart from these.

5 And the king of the south will become strong, and one from his princes and will gain strength even over him, and he will rule; a great dominion is his dominion.

6 And at the end of years they will be united. And the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement; she will not retain the strength of her arm, and neither will he stand, nor his arm. And she will be given up, and those who brought her, and the one who begat her, and the one who strengthened her in those times.

7 And one will arise from a branch of her roots in his place. And he will come with an army, and he will come into the fortress of the king of the north, and he will deal with them and he will prevail.

8 And even their gods, with their princes, with the vessels of their desiring, silver and gold, he will carry away into captivity to Egypt. And he will stand back some years from the king of the north,

9 and he will come into the kingdom of the king of the south, and he will return to his own land.

10 And his sons will stir up strife, and they will gather a multitude of great forces, and it will keep coming coming continually, and will flow over and pass through, and it will return and carry the war as far as his fortress.

11 And the king of the south will be enraged, and he will go out and fight with him, with the king of the north; and he will raise up a great multitude, and the multitude will be given into his hand.

12 And he has taken away the multitude, and his heart will be lifted up; and thousands he will cause to fall, and he will not prevail.

13 For the king of the north will return, and he will raise a multitude greater than the first; at the end of the times of years, he will come forcefully with a great army and with many supplies.

14 And in those times, many will rise up against the king of the south; and sons of violence among your people will exalt themselves to fulfill the vision, and they will fall.

15 And the king of the north will come, and he will build a siege mound, and he will capture a city of fortifications; and the forces of the south will not stand; even their best troops will have no strength to stand.

16 And the one coming against him will do according to his will, and no one will stand before his face; and he will stand in the land of glory, with destruction in his hand.

17 And he will set his face to enter with the strength of all his kingdom, and upright ones with him; and he will act, and the daughter of women he will give to him, to corrupt her, and she will not stand and she will not be for him.

18 And he will turn back his face to the coastlands, and he will capture many, and a prince will bring to an end the scorn unto him. Nevertheless his scorn he will cause to turn back to him.

19 And he will turn his face toward the fortress of his own land, and he will stumble and fall, and he will not be found.

20 And there will arise upon his station one making pass through a pressing for the splendor of the kingdom; and in a few days he will be broken, though not in anger and not in battle.

21 And will arise upon his station a despicable one, and they will not give upon him the splendor of royalty, and he will come in a time of ease and will seize the kingdom by flatteries.

22 And the arms of the flood will be swept away from before him, and they will be broken, and also the prince of the covenant.

23 And after they join with him, he will act with deceit, for he will come up and become strong with a small number of people.