11/30/2022 0 Comments Kings in the book of danielWhen the army is carried off, the king of the South will be filled with pride and will slaughter many thousands, yet he will not remain triumphant. Later, the Syrian kingdom in the North tried to retaliate-and even attempted to invade Egypt.ĭaniel 11:11–13: “Then the king of the South will march out in a rage and fight against the king of the North, who will raise a large army, but it will be defeated. His sons will prepare for war and assemble a great army, which will sweep on like an irresistible flood and carry the battle as far as his fortress.”įulfillment: Princess Berenice’s brother, the king in Egypt, carried out a successful military campaign against the North in 245-241 BC. Then the king of the North will invade the realm of the king of the South but will retreat to his own country. For some years, he will leave the king of the North alone. He will also seize their gods, their metal images and their valuable articles of silver and gold and carry them off to Egypt. He will attack the forces of the king of the North and enter his fortress he will fight against them and be victorious. Instead of sealing an alliance, the two kingdoms went to war.ĭaniel 11:7–10: “One from her family line will arise to take her place. But the king of the North died suddenly, and the wife and child were murdered in 246 BC. Princess Berenice from the South married the Seleucid king, and a child was born from that union. Therefore, the king of the South proposed a marriage alliance to unite kingdoms. In those days she will be handed over, together with her royal escort and her father and the one who supported her.”įulfillment: At first, the Seleucid king in Syria (“the North”) had been a subject of Ptolemy in Egypt (“the South”), but in time he actually became more powerful. The daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North to make an alliance, but she will not retain her power, and he and his power will not last. After some years, they will become allies. Here is the prophecy of Daniel 11:5–6: “The king of the South will become strong, but one of his commanders will become even stronger than he and will rule his own kingdom with great power. North = Syria = the Seleucid dynasty, which included several kings with the name Antiochus The king of the North is the Greek king of Syria, of the Seleucid dynasty. These two dynasties were antagonistic toward each other, and Israel was caught in the middle. Daniel 11 covers hundreds of years, so the kings of the North and South are not single individuals rather, they are the rulers of the Ptolemaic dynasty (headquartered in Egypt) and the Seleucid dynasty (headquartered in Syria). Another general, Seleucis, took control of an area to the north of Israel that included Syria. One of these generals, Ptolemy, took an area to the south of Israel that included Egypt. All agree that this is Alexander the Great, who died in 323 BC in the prime of life and whose empire was divided among his four generals. The information in Daniel 11 is so accurate that secular scholars posit that it is prophecy ex eventu, that is, prophecy “after the fact,” which would not really be prophecy at all.ĭaniel 11 starts with a mighty Greek king whose kingdom is divided after his death. There were no canonical books written during this period, but the apocryphal books of 1 and 2 Maccabees record the history of the time period. The time predicted in Daniel 11 took place during what is known as the Intertestamental Period-the roughly 400 years between the close of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New. In the chapters leading up to Daniel 11, God reveals that Israel will be restored however, He also tells Daniel of a time of great trouble for Israel. Syria is to the north of Israel, so the king in Syria is the “king of the North.” Egypt is to the south of Israel, so the series of Egyptian kings of the Ptolemaic dynasty is the “ king of the South” in this passage. The “king of the North” mentioned in Daniel 11 is actually a series of Greek kings in Syria of the Seleucid dynasty.
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