DANIEL—NOTE ON Daniel 11:13 After about 15 years, Antiochus III (the Great, reigned 223–187 B.C., the king of the north) invaded Phoenicia and Syria with a great army. Ptolemy IV had died (203 B.C.), and Antiochus III intended to use the instability around the young new king, Ptolemy V Epiphanes (reigned 203–180 B.C.), to his advantage. It worked, at least initially, and by 201 B.C. the fortress of Gaza had been recaptured.

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