Daniel 11:1–19

Kingdoms and Wars

¹“Now I, in the ^afirst year of Darius the Mede, ¹I stood to strengthen and to be a fortress for him.

²“So now I will tell you the ^atruth. Behold, three more kings are going to stand ¹in Persia. Then a fourth will gain far more riches than all of them; as soon as he becomes strong through his riches, ²he will arouse the whole empire against the kingdom of ^3bGreece.

³“And a ^amighty king will stand, and he will ¹dominate with great ²domination and ^bdo as he pleases.

⁴“But as soon as he stands, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out ^atoward the ^bfour winds of ¹heaven, but not to his own descendants, nor according to his ²domination with which he ³dominated, for his kingdom will be ^cuprooted and given to others besides ⁴them.

⁵“Then the ^aking of the South will grow strong, ¹along with one of his princes ²who will grow strong over him and ³obtain dominion; indeed, his ⁴domain will be a great ⁵dominion.

⁶“And ¹after some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will come to the ^aking of the North to carry out ²an equitable arrangement. But she will not retain her ³position of power, nor will he continue to stand with his ⁴power, but she will be given up, along with those who brought her in and the one who fathered her as well as he who strengthened her in those times.

⁷“But one of the ¹descendants of her line will stand in his place, and he will come against their military force and enter the ^afortress of the king of the North, and he will deal with them and display strength.

⁸“And also their ^agods with their ¹metal images and their desirable vessels of silver and gold he will bring into captivity to Egypt, and he on his part will stand back from attacking the king of the North for some years.

⁹“Then ¹the latter will enter the kingdom of the king of the South, but will return to his own land.

¹⁰“And his sons will wage war. So they will gather a multitude of great forces; and one of them will keep on coming and ^aoverflow and pass through, that he may ¹again wage war up to his very fortress.

¹¹“And the ^aking of the South will be enraged and go forth and fight ¹with the king of the North. Then the latter will cause a great multitude to stand, but that multitude will be given into ²the hand of the former.

¹²“Then the multitude will be carried away, his heart will be lifted up, and he will cause tens of thousands to fall; yet he will not prevail.

¹³“And the king of the North will again cause a much greater multitude than the former to stand, and at the ^aend of the times of those years, he will keep on coming with a great military force and much equipment.

¹⁴“Now in those times many will stand against the king of the South; the violent ones among your people will also lift themselves up in order to cause the vision to stand, but they will ¹fall down.

¹⁵“Then the king of the North will come, cast up a ^asiege ramp, and capture a well-fortified city; and the might of the South will not stand, not even ¹their choicest troops, for there will be no strength to make a stand.

¹⁶“But he who comes against him will ^ado as he pleases, and ^bno one will be able to stand in ¹opposition to him; he will also stand for a time in the ^2cBeautiful Land, with destruction in his hand.

¹⁷“And he will ^aset his face to come with the authority of his whole kingdom, ¹bringing with him ²an equitable proposal which he will ³put into effect; he will also give him the daughter of women to destroy it. But she will not take a stand for him or be ⁴on his side.

¹⁸“Then he will turn his face to the ^acoastlands and capture many. But a ruler will make his reproach against him cease; moreover, he will ^brepay him for his reproach.

¹⁹“So he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will ^astumble and fall and be ^bfound no more.