Daniel 11:44

But tidings or rumours, as the same word is rendered in 2 Kings 19:7 (Isaiah 37:7), of the tidings which caused Sennacherib to withdraw. So Jeremiah 51:46; Ezekiel 7:26. Lit. something heard. Here, probably, rumours of insurrections, or wars, in the E. and N. of his dominions.

trouble alarm. See on Daniel 4:5.

and he shall go forth viz. out of Egypt.

to destroy and utterly to make away many lit. -and to ban (or devote) many." The word, which means properly to set apart, seclude, is used primarily of the ban laid upon persons or objects hostile to Israel's religion (Exodus 22:20; Deuteronomy 2:34; Deuteronomy 7:2; Deuteronomy 7:25-26; Joshua 6:17-19, &c.) [391] : as this involved generally their destruction, it is often rendered in A.V. utterly destroy(so also in R.V., when applied to persons), though, of course, this rendering expresses only a secondary idea. In the present late passage, however, as in 2 Chronicles 20:23, it is simply a synonym for destroy.

[391] See further the writer's Commentary on 1 Samuel 15:33, or Deuteronomy 7:2.