One more vile. Seleucus Philopator, who sent Heliodorus to plunder the temple; and was shortly after slain by the same Heliodorus. (Challoner) --- He reigned about twelve years; and had sent his own son, Demetrius, to be a hostage at Rome instead of Epiphanes, whom he designed to place at the head of an army to invade Egypt. Hebrew: "one who shall cause the exactor to pass over the glory of the kingdom," the temple. (2 Machabees iii.) (Calmet)
Verse 20. _THEN SHALL STAND UP IN HIS ESTATE A RAISER OF TAXES_] _Seleucus Philopater_ succeeded his father _Antiochus_. He sent his treasurer _Heliodorus_ to seize the money deposited in the temple o...
THEN SHALL STAND UP IN HIS ESTATE - Margin, “or, place.” The word used - כן _kên_ - means, properly, “a stand, station, place” (see the notes at Daniel 11:7), and the idea here is simply that he woul...
CHAPTER 11 THE WARS OF THE PTOLEMIES AND SELEUCIDAE PREDICTED THE COMING EVENTS OF THE END _ 1. The wars of the Ptolemies and Seleucidae (Daniel 11:1)_ 2. The time of the end and the man of sin (Dan...
DANIEL 11:20. ONE: _ i.e._ Seleucus IV (187- 175 B.C) SHALL CAUSE AN EXACTOR: these words are supposed to refer to an attempt by Seleucus to plunder the Temple in Jerusalem (2Ma_2:1). WITHIN FEW DAYS:...
A RAISER OF TAXES... KINGDOM. = one [Seleucus] causing the exactor [Heliodorus] to pass through [Judea], the glorious land (compare verses: Dan 16:41. Daniel 8:9). Seleucus sent Heliodorus to Jerusale...
( 2) Daniel 11:2 to Daniel 12:4. The revelation given to Daniel. This consists of a survey of the history from the beginning of the Persian period down to the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, followed by...
Seleucus IV. (Philopator), b.c. 187 175. Antiochus the Great left two sons, Seleucus and Antiochus (Epiphanes), both of whom successively followed him on the throne. AND _in his_ PLACE (Daniel 11:7)...
THEN SHALL STAND UP—A RAISER OF TAXES— Or, according to the original, _One who causeth an exactor to pass over the glory,_ &c. Seleucus Philopater succeeded his father Antiochus the Great in Syria. He...
(3) PTOLEMIES AND SELEUCIDS, II TEXT: Daniel 11:10-20 10 And his sons shall war, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall come on, and overflow, and pass through; and they shall...
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. THEN SHALL STAND UP IN HIS ESTATE - in...
THE FINAL VISION These chs, form a connected whole, with three sub-divisions. Daniel 10:1 to Daniel 11:1 are introductory; Daniel 11:2 to Daniel 12:4 co
GRECIA] RV 'Greece.' The interests of the Jews would have to be maintained against the Persian and Greek powers in succession. Antiochus III was succeeded by Seleucus IV (Philopator), who sent his ch...
THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 11 V1 ‘Since the first year that Darius from Media ruled, I supported him’, he continued. ‘And I helped him.’ Verse 1 This is really p...
A RAISER OF TAXES. — The marginal version is to be preferred, as it gives the meaning of the word “exactor,” or “oppressor,” which it has in Exodus 3:7, and in every passage where it occurs, except pe...
וְ עָמַ֧ד עַל ־כַּנֹּ֛ו מַעֲבִ֥יר נֹוגֵ֖שׂ הֶ
THIRD SECTION (Daniel 11:20) Events under Seleucus Philopator down to the first attempts of Antiochus Epiphanes against Egypt (B.C. 170). Daniel 11:20 -Seleucus Philopator (B.C. 187-176) had a chara...
THE DESPOILER TRIUMPHS FOR A TIME Daniel 11:15-29 What a picture is presented in this paragraph of the tangled web of earthly politics. They have been too much, and for too long, in the hands of thos...
The foretelling of the glorious One is contained in this chapter. It covered a period to the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, and finally referred to the Messianic kingdom. There would be yet three kings...
(q) 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 (r) anger, nor in battle. (q) That is, Seleuchus will succ...
If my Reader be more curious to make search into hidden things, than to turn over again and again those which the Lord hath revealed; I fear that he will not be pleased with the shortness I purpose to...
Seleucus, it is well known, did not long survive his father, for he was put to death either by poison, or by his domestics. Suspicion fell upon his brother Antiochus, who was sent back to his country...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 AND 11. In chapter 10 we return to the East [1]. Chapter s 10, 11 and 12 form but one prophecy; only chapter 11 closes the history of the Gentiles, and cha...
THEN SHALL STAND UP IN HIS ESTATE A RAISER OF TAXES IN THE GLORY OF THE KINGDOM,.... This was not Antiochus Epiphanes, as Theodoret, he is designed in the next verse; nor Ptolemy Epiphanes; as Porphyr...
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. Ver. 20. _Then shall stand up in his est...
_Then shall stand up in his estate_ Hebrew, על כנו, _on his base;_ Vulgate, _in his place;_ or, _shall succeed him; a raiser of taxes in the glory of his kingdom_ Or, as in the margin, _one that cause...
Daniel 11:1. ALSO I, IN THE FIRST YEAR OF DARIUS, THE MEDE, EVEN I, STOOD TO CONFIRM AND TO STRENGTHEN HIM, or, "even as I stood by to strengthen him," the inference being that the various angelic spi...
Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom, literally, "then shall arise in his stead one who causes exactors (or oppressors) to pass through the ornament of the k...
A RAISER OF TAXES: _ Heb._ one that causeth an exactour to pass over ANGER: _ Heb._ angers...
1-30 The angel shows Daniel the succession of the Persian and Grecian empires. The kings of Egypt and Syria are noticed: Judea was between their dominions, and affected by their contests. From ver. D...
This was Seleucus Philopater, a very covetous griper, who peeled his subjects; who being told by his friends this would alienate his friends from him, answered, Money was his best friend; and therefor...
Daniel 11:20 arise H5975 (H8804) place H3653 imposes H5674 (H8688) taxes H5065 (H8802) glorious H1925 kingdom...
ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES - THE SCOURGE OF ISRAEL. Apart from Daniel 11:20, the remaining verses in the chapter deal with the life of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, second son of Antiochus III, who usurped the thr...
‘Then will stand up in his place one who will cause an exactor to pass through the glory of the kingdom, but within few days he will be destroyed, neither in anger nor in battle.' This was Antiochus I...
A RAISER OF TAXES A reference to the tribute exacted of the son of Antiochus the Great by the Romans....
CONTENTS: Prophecy covering the period from Darius to anti-Christ, showing the conflicts of nations, and final heading up for destruction. CHARACTERS: God, Daniel, Kings of Persia and Greece, anti-Ch...
Daniel 11:2. _There shall stand up yet three kings in Persia._ Daniel, a minister of state for most of his long life, was here shewn the succession of kingdoms in so clear a light as to command all me...
DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 11:20 Seleucus IV Philopater (reigned 187–175 B.C.) succeeded his father, Antiochus III the Great. Seleucus IV sent a “tax collector,” Heliodorus, to collect the money to pay Rom...
_HOMILETICS_ SECT. XXXVIII.—THE KINGS OF THE NORTH AND OF THE SOUTH. (Chap. Daniel 11:1.) We come to the things which the angel was commissioned to communicate to the prophet, and through him to the...
EXPOSITION DANIEL 11:1 THE KINGS OF THE NORTH AND THE KINGS OF THE SOUTH. Daniel 11:1
Now He begins to reveal unto Daniel these things are going to transpire, as far as the future is concerned. And here Daniel gets into such interesting details that many of the Bible critics have a dif...
2 Kings 23:35; Daniel 11:21; Daniel 11:7; Deuteronomy 15:2;...
A raiser of taxes — Seleucus Philopator, who peeled his subjects, and spared not to rob the temple. Within few days — For he lived not out the third part of his father's reign. Not in battle — Not by...