Daniel 11:45

plant viz. as a tree: fig. for fix. A late usage: cf. Ecclesiastes 12:11; and see Levy, NHWB[392] iii. 380.

[392] HWB.M. Levy, Neuhebräisches und Chaldäisches Wörterbuch, 1876 89.

the tents of his palace the large and sumptuous tent, or collection of tents, which would form naturally the headquarters of an oriental king [393]. The word for -palace" (appéden) occurs only here in the O.T.: it is a Persian word, denoting properly a large hall or throne-room (see on Daniel 8:1). From Persian it passed into Aramaic, it is used in the Targ. of Jeremiah 43:10 of the -royal pavilion" which Nebuchadnezzar was to erect in Egypt, and occurs frequently in Syriac in the sense of -palace." The present passage shews that it passed similarly into late Hebrew.

[393] Polyaenus (Strateg. iv. iii. 24) describes the spacious and gorgeously decorated tent in which Alexander administered justice whilst in India.

between the seas and the beauteous holy mountain between the Mediterranean Sea (for the poet. plur., see Judges 5:17; Deuteronomy 33:19) and the hill of Zion; -holy mountain," as Psalms 2:6, and frequently; -beauteous" as Daniel 11:16; Daniel 11:41.

and he shall come to his end Antiochus died actually at Tabae in Persia. It is certainly not said here in so many words that he should meet his end at the spot on which his royal tent was to be pitched; but the connexion between the two parts of the verse naturally implies it: Antiochus is to meet his death in Palestine, the country in which he had committed his greatest crimes, and which he was even now threatening to invade and ravage again. Other prophets also represent the powers hostile to Israel as defeated in proximity to Jerusalem: cf. Ezekiel 39:4; Joel 3:2; Joel 3:12 f., Zechariah 14:2.