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Daniel 11:3
And a mighty king shall stand up, a heroic, warlike king, namely, Alexander of Macedonia and Greece, that shall rule with great dominion and do according to his will, with tyrannical authority.
And a mighty king shall stand up, a heroic, warlike king, namely, Alexander of Macedonia and Greece, that shall rule with great dominion and do according to his will, with tyrannical authority.
Verse Daniel 11:3. _A MIGHTY KING SHALL STAND UP_] This was _Alexander the_ _Great_. It is not said that this mighty king shall stand up against _Xerxes_, for he was not born till _one hundred_ years...
AND A MIGHTY KING SHALL STAND UP - So far as the language here is concerned, it is not said whether this would be in Persia, as a successor of the “fourth king” Daniel 11:2, or whether it would be in...
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 11:3. A MIGHTY KING: Alexander the Great....
A MIGHTY KING. The he-goat's "little horn" (Daniel 8:9). DO ACCORDING TO HIS WILL. See Daniel 8:4. Compare verses: Daniel 11:16; Daniel 11:36....
( 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...
Alexander the Great (b.c. 336 323). The writer, passing over the intermediate Persian rulers, hastens to the period when the course of events begins to affect the Jews, limiting what he has to say res...
A MIGHTY KING SHALL STAND UP, &C.— _Afterwards,_ &c. Houbigant. This is the character of Alexander. That he was a _mighty king_ and conqueror, that he not only _ruled with great dominion_ over Greece...
CHAPTER ELEVEN V. THE CONTEMPTIBLE ONE Daniel 11:1-45 a. PROGENITORS (1) PERSIA AND GREECE TEXT: Daniel 11:1-4 1 And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to conform and str...
And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. A MIGHTY KING SHALL STAND UP, THAT SHALL RULE WITH GREAT DOMINION, AND DO ACCORDING TO HIS WILL...
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
A MIGHTY KING] Alexander the Great (333-322 b.c.). 4. The partition of Alexander's empire is described: see chapter Daniel 8:8; Daniel 8:22. 5-20. Along with the notes on these vv. the table of Syria...
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 MIGHTY KING. — No clue is given to show over what nation this king reigns. According to the context he might be either a Greek or a Persian, or he might belong to a kingdom not yet mentioned. Those...
וְ עָמַ֖ד מֶ֣לֶךְ גִּבֹּ֑ור וּ מָשַׁל֙ מִמְשׁ
FIRST SECTION Daniel 11:2 Events from the rise of Alexander the Great (B.C. 336) to the death of Seleucus Nicator (B.C. 280). There are to be three kings of Persia after Cyrus (who is then reigning)...
THE RISE AND FALL OF EMPIRES Daniel 11:1-14 This chapter foretells the histories of Xerxes, of Alexander the Great, the division of his kingdom on his death, and the long conflicts between the kings...
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...
And a (d) mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. (d) That is, Alexander the Great....
_A strong king: Alexander. (Challoner) --- The sequel clearly points him out. Before fifteen years had elapsed, his mother, brother, and children were slain. Arideus, his brother, was declared regent...
Here is a plain and evident inference to the kings and kingdom of Persia, which arose out of the Chaldean; and from the connection which the Church was obliged to have with this kingdom, after Cyrus h...
This refers to Alexander of Macedon. I have already shortly stated the reason why the angel passed over all the Persian kings from Artabanus to the last Darius, they did not engage in any contests wit...
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...
AND A MIGHTY KING SHALL STAND UP,.... Not in Persia, but in Greece; Alexander the great, who rose up a hundred years after the above expedition of Xerxes, and "stood" and flourished, and conquered all...
_And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will._ Ver. 3. _But a mighty king shall stand up._] Alexander the Great, the founder of the Greek monar...
_And a mighty king shall stand up_, &c. Namely, from among the Grecians; _that shall rule with great dominion_ This is evidently descriptive of Alexander the Great; of the rapidity and success of whos...
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 Alexander the Great, the he-goat, who, moved with choler for the Persian invasion, run down the ram and stamped on it, and got a golden fleece from him by that, and after many victories; afte...
Daniel 11:3 mighty H1368 king H4428 arise H5975 (H8804) rule H4910 (H8804) great H7227 dominion H4474 do...
THE GROWTH AND DIVISION OF THE GRECIAN EMPIRE. ‘And a mighty king will stand up who will rule with great dominion and do according to his will.' This was the final result of the acts of Xerxes, and...
KING Alexander the Great, B.C. 332. See (Daniel 8:5); (Daniel 8:21); (Daniel 8:22)....
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 11:3 The prophecy skips over several lesser Persian kings to focus on the MIGHTY KING who will bring down the Persian Empire and rule a vast realm. He is Alexander the Great (336...
_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...
Daniel 7:6; Daniel 8:21; Daniel 8:5; Daniel 11:16; Daniel 11:36;...
A mighty king — Alexander the great....