Daniel 11:1–19

Also I ^ain the first year of ^aDarius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.

²And now will I shew thee ^bthe truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of ^cGrecia. ³And ^da mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and ^edo according to his will. ⁴And when he shall stand up, ^fhis kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided ^ftoward ^gthe four winds of heaven; and not to ^hhis posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.

⁵And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion. ⁶And in the end of years they ^†shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make ^†an agreement: but she ⁱshall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and ^kthey that brought her, and ^||he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times. ⁷But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up ^||in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into ^othe fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail: ⁸And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their ^lprinces, and with ^†their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north. ⁹So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land. ¹⁰But his sons ^||mshall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and ⁿoverflow, ⁿand pass through: ^||then shall he return, and be stirred up, ^oeven to his fortress. ¹¹And the king of the south ^pshall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and ^qhe shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand. ¹²And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be strengthened by it. ¹³For the king of the north shall return, and ^qshall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come ^†after certain years with a great army and with much riches. ¹⁴And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also ^†rthe robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves ^sto establish the vision; but ^tthey shall fall. ¹⁵So the king of the north shall come, and ^ucast up a mount, and take ^†the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither ^†his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand. ¹⁶But he that cometh against him ^eshall do according to his own will, and ^wnone shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the ^||†glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed. ¹⁷He shall also ^xset his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and ^||upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, ^†corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, ^yneither be for him. ¹⁸After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but ^za prince ^†for his own behalf shall cause ^†the reproach offered by him to cease; without ^zzhis own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him. ¹⁹Then he shall turn his face toward ^othe fort of his own land: but ^tahe shall stumble ^aand fall, ^band not be found.