i.e. God in their affliction, when it is great, wherein he never leaves himself without witness, shall raise up some succour, to be witnesses to this truth, to vindicate his honour and save his people from utter destruction, viz. by the Maccabees. Read what Mattathias and his sons did at Modin, /APC 1Mac 2, read the chapter, who would not be flattered out of their religion.
Verse 34. _NOW WHEN THEY SHALL FALL_] When the storm of the _tenth_ persecution under _Diocletian_, which lasted _ten_ years, _fell upon_ _them_, they were sorely oppressed. _THEY SHALL BE HOLPEN WI...
NOW WHEN THEY SHALL FALL, THEY SHALL BE HOLPEN WITH A LITTLE HELP - By small accessions to their forces. The armies of the Maccabees were never “very” numerous; but the idea here is, that when they sh...
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 11:34. MANY SHALL JOIN: Charles, using the LXX as his basis, emends, and there shall join them many in the city and many in their several homesteads, _i.e._ the country districts....
SHALL BE HOLPEN, &C. = shall obtain but little help....
Antiochus IV. (Epiphanes), 175 164....
( 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...
Antiochus" retreat from Egypt, (Daniel 11:30 _a_), and the measures adopted by him shortly afterwards against the Jews (Daniel 11:30; Daniel 11:30)....
In the midst of their trials a -little help" will arise, to assist them. The allusion is to the rising of the Maccabees. First of all, Mattathias, either alone or assisted only by his sons, resisted o...
WHEN THEY SHALL FALL, &C.— The church had laboured under long and severe persecutions from the civil power. The tenth and last was begun by Dioclesian; it raged ten years, and was suppressed entirely...
c. PERVERSITY TEXT: Daniel 11:29-39 29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come into the south; but it shall not be in the latter time as it was in the former. 30 For ships of Kittim shall...
Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries. NOW WHEN THEY SHALL FALL, THEY SHALL BE HOLPEN WITH A LITTLE HELP. The liberty obta...
A LITTLE HELP] the Maccabæan revolt (1 Maccabees 2-4). MANY.. FLATTERIES] The strict Jewish party had insincere adherents of its own. 35. The martyrs included leaders whose death tested and developed...
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
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...
NOW WHEN THEY SHALL FALL. — Referring to those who suffer during this persecution, to whichever class they belong. (See last Note). These will not be entirely without help, but there will be some smal...
וּ בְ הִכָּ֣שְׁלָ֔ם יֵעָזְר֖וּ עֵ֣זֶר מְעָ֑ט...
FOURTH SECTION (Daniel 11:28) Events between the first attack of Antiochus on Jerusalem (B.C. 170) and his plunder of the Temple to the first revolt of the Maccabees (B.C. 167). Daniel 11:28 (B.C. 1...
ARROGANCE OVERTHROWN Daniel 11:30-45 The career of Antiochus Epiphanes, in persecuting the people of God and plotting against Jehovah and His sanctuary, is so described as to suggest that it also inc...
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...
Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a (p) little help: but many shall cleave to them (q) with flatteries. (p) As God will not leave his Church destitute, yet he will not deliver it al...
_Help. The victories of the Machabees were miraculous. --- Deceitfully, like those who took the spoils of idols, and were slain. Hebrew may imply, "secretly." (Calmet)_...
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...
_And when they shall fall, or _shall have fallen, _they shall be strengthened, _or assisted, _with a small help _Without the slightest doubt, the angel here speaks of the Maccabees, by whose assistanc...
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...
NOW WHEN THEY SHALL FALL, THEY SHALL BE HOLPEN WITH A LITTLE HELP,.... When the Jews shall be thus harassed and distressed by Antiochus and his armies, to the ruin of many, by the several sorts of pun...
_Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries._ Ver. 34. _They shall be holpen with a little help._] With the valiant Asmonians or...
_Now when they shall fall_ When they shall lie quite overcome and oppressed with these great miseries; _they shall be holpen with a little help_ This was fulfilled by Mattathias and his five sons, who...
Now, when they shall fall, in sacrificing themselves for the sake of their religious principles, THEY SHALL BE HOLPEN WITH A LITTLE HELP, for the theocratic kingdom was retained as a result of their e...
FURTHER REVELATIONS CONCERNING THE FUTURE...
31-45 The remainder of this prophecy is very difficult, and commentators differ much respecting it. From Antiochus the account seems to pass to antichrist. Reference seems to be made to the Roman emp...
Daniel 11:34 fall H3782 (H8736) aided H5826 (H8735) little H4592 help H5828 many H7227 join H3867 ...
‘Now when they shall fall they will be helped with a little help. But many will join themselves to them with flatteries. And some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify them, a...
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...
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 11:33 THE WISE AMONG THE PEOPLE SHALL MAKE MANY UNDERSTAND. This likely refers to those who truly fear God and who will encourage others to fight and even die rather than offer u...
_HOMILETICS_ SECTION XXXIX.—ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES; OR, THE VILE PERSON. (Chaps. Daniel 11:21.) The next part of the prophecy is occupied with a person who has been already the subject of divine revelat...
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...
1 John 2:18; 1 John 2:19; 1 John 4:1; 1 John 4:5; 1 Timothy 4:1;...