Daniel 11:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land. ”

• Daniel 11:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom - That is, into the kingdom of the north, or the kingdom of Syria. This verse seems to be a summary of what had been said about his invading S...

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• Daniel 11:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Daniel 11:9 . He shall come: Seleucus II. After the murder of Antiochus, his successor, Seleucus Callinicus, invaded Egypt but was defeated (240 B.C.).

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• Daniel 11:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  land . soil.

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• Daniel 11:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  This clause belongs to the former verse; as if he had said, Ptolemy shall return by a peaceful march after this hostile invasion of Syria. For he might have some fears lest his enemy should not...

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• Daniel 11:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land. So the king of the south - Ptolemy Euergetes: - Shall come into his kingdom - That of Seleucus Callinicus...

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• Daniel 11:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  But out of a branch, &c.— Rather, as in the Vulgate, Out of the branch of her root, shall stand up a plant; and he shall come, &c. This branch which sprung out of the same root with Ber...

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• Daniel 11:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land. So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom - Egypt: not only with impunity, but with great...

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• Daniel 11:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Final Vision These chs, form a connected whole, with three sub-divisions. Daniel 10:1 to Daniel 11:1 are introductory; Daniel 11:2 to Daniel 12:4 contain a detailed account of future e...

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• Daniel 11:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The king of the south. — According to the Hebrew text, these words are in the genitive case (so Theod. Jer.), though the English Version is supported by the LXX. In this case the meaning is, “The k...

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• Daniel 11:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  FIRST SECTION Daniel 11:2-9 Events from the rise of Alexander the Great (B.C. 336) to the death of Seleucus Nicator (B.C. 280). There are to be three kings of Persia after Cyrus (who is then re...

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• Daniel 11:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Rise and Fall of Empires Daniel 11:1-14 This chapter foretells the histories of Xerxes, of Alexander the Great, the division of his kingdom on his death, and the long conflicts between the...

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• Daniel 11:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The foretelling of the glorious One is contained in this chapter. It covered a period to the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, and finally referred to the Messianic kingdom. There would be yet three king...

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• Daniel 11:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  If my Reader be more curious to make search into hidden things, than to turn over again and again those which the Lord hath revealed; I fear that he will not be pleased with the shortness I purpose t...

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• Daniel 11:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom ,.... Into his own kingdom, the kingdom of Egypt; or into the kingdom of Syria, the kingdom of Seleucus, and conquer great part of it, and ravage...

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• Daniel 11:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  So the king of the south shall come into [his] kingdom, and shall return into his own land. Ver. 9. So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom. ] Called out of Syria by a commotion at ho...

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• Daniel 11:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Affairs of Egypt and Syria; The Reign of Antiochus Magnus; The Fall of Antiochus Magnus. B. C.  534....

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• Daniel 11:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  So he did, with a booty of forty thousand talents of silver, without fear or danger.

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• Daniel 11:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And he will come into the land of the king of the south, but he will return to his own land.' Eventually Seleucus II counterattacked in around 240BC, but unsuccessfully, and had to withdraw defeate...

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• Daniel 11:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  HOMILETICS SECT. XXXVIII.—THE KINGS OF THE NORTH AND OF THE SOUTH. (Chap. Daniel 11:1-20 .) We come to the things which the angel was commissioned to communicate to the prophet, and through him...

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• Daniel 11:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Daniel 11:2 . There shall stand up yet three kings in Persia. Daniel, a minister of state for most of his long life, was here shewn the succession of kingdoms in so clear a light as to command all...

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• Daniel 11:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Daniel 11:1-27 THE KINGS OF THE NORTH AND THE KINGS OF THE SOUTH . Daniel 11:1 Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm a...

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• Daniel 11:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Daniel 11:1 . Also I, in the first year of Darius, the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him, or, "even as I stood by to strengthen him," the inference being that the various angeli...

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• Daniel 11:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Return — So he did with a booty of forty thousand talents of silver.

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