Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Daniel 11:19
Then — Then he turned his face home — ward, yet was he not in safety, but was quickly after killed.
Then — Then he turned his face home — ward, yet was he not in safety, but was quickly after killed.
Verse 19. _HE SHALL TURN HIS FACE TOWARD THE FORT OF HIS OWN_ _LAND_] After this shameful defeat, Antiochus fled to Sardis, thence to Apamea, and the next day got into Syria, and to _Antioch_, his _ow...
THEN HE SHALL TURN HIS FACE TOWARD THE FORT OF HIS OWN LAND - The strong fortifications of his own land - for the Hebrew word is in the plural. This he would do, of course, for protection. He would ce...
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 11:19_ B_. refers to the murder of Antiochus in 187 B.C. by the inhabitants of Elymais, in revenge for his sacrilege upon the Temple of Bel....
FORT. fortresses. STUMBLE. stagger. Antiochus III, after his defeat by Scipio at Magnesia (near Smyrna), withdrew to Syria....
( 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 III. (Ceraunos), 226 223, and Antiochus III. (the Great), 223 187: Ptolemy IV. (Philopator), 222 205, and Ptolemy V. (Epiphanes), 205 181. Seleucus Callinicus left two sons, Seleucus Cerauno...
_Then he shall turn his face towards the_ STRONGHOLDS _of his own land; but he shall stumble_, &c. The end of Antiochus (b.c. 187). After his discomfiture at Magnesia he was obliged to retire east of...
THEN HE SHALL TURN HIS FACE TOWARDS THE FORT— Antiochus, after the battle, fled away at night to Sardis, thence to Apamea; and the next day came into Syria, to Antioch, _the fort of his own land._ The...
(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 he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found. THEN HE SHALL TURN HIS FACE TOWARD THE FORT OF HIS OWN LAND. Compelled by Rome to reli...
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
FORT (RV 'fortresses') OF HIS OWN LAND] After his defeat at Magnesia Antiochus withdrew to 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...
THE FORT. — The king of the north is forced to take refuge in his fortresses, and here meets with his end. This is explained of the death of Antiochus the Great at Elymais, where he had profaned a tem...
וְ יָשֵׁ֣ב פָּנָ֔יו לְ מָעוּזֵּ֖י אַרְצֹ֑ו וְ
SECOND SECTION (Daniel 11:10) Events from the death of Ptolemy Euergetes (B.C. 247) to the death of Antiochus III (the Great, B.C. 175). In the following verses, as Behrmann observes, there is a so...
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...
Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of (o) his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be (p) found. (o) For fear of the Romans he will flee to his strongholds. (p) For when as unde...
_Found. Antiochus plundered the temple of the Elymaites to procure money; but they, (St. Jerome) or the neighbouring barbarous nations, rose up and slew him. (Just. xxxii.)_...
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...
Here either the base end of Antiochus is denoted, who was slain in a popular tumult while spoiling the temple of Belus, or else the event of the war between him and the Romans is described. This war w...
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 HE SHALL TURN HIS FACE TOWARDS THE FORT OF HIS OWN LAND,.... After his defeat he fled with a few to Sardis, and from thence to Apamea, so Livy; and to Susa, and to the further parts of his domini...
_Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found._ Ver. 19. _Then he shall turn his face._] Not accepting the aforesaid hard conditions; t...
_Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land_ The word rendered _fort_, מעוזי, is plural, and would be more properly rendered, the _fortresses._ It is intended to signify, that he shou...
Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land, withdrawing to them on account of the force of the attack against him; BUT HE SHALL STUMBLE AND FALL AND NOT BE FOUND, for this reversal wa...
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...
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...
Being beaten in battle by Scipio, with thirty thousand Romans, he himself having seventy thousand, and rejecting the counsel of Hannibal, he yielded upon dishonourable terms to deliver his ships and e...
Daniel 11:19 turn H7725 (H8686) face H6440 fortress H4581 land H776 stumble H3782 (H8738) fall H5307 ...
‘Then he will turn his face towards the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and will not be found.' In view of his current weakness dissent broke out at home and he had to deal w...
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 11:17 After General Scopas’s surrender, Egypt was forced into an alliance with the Syrians. Antiochus III the Great even gave his DAUGHTER, Cleopatra (not the famous one from a l...
_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...
Ezekiel 26:21; Jeremiah 46:6; Job 20:8; Psalms 27:2; Psalms 37:36...