Daniel 11:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

a raiser of taxes... kingdom. = one [Seleucus] causing the exactor [Heliodorus] to pass through [Judea], the glorious land (compare verses: Dan 16:41. Daniel 8:9). Seleucus sent Heliodorus to Jerusalem to plunder the Temple, &c.

neither in anger. Ginsburg suggests "and not with hands", because it was by poison. Here ends the historical portion, which has been fulfilled now, but which was then future, verse Dan 21:12, Dan 21:3 passes on to the time which is still (1912/2009) future to us. Here begins the portion of this prophecy which is still future to us (1912/2009), "the latter days" of Daniel 10:14.

Daniel 11:20

20 Then shall stand up in his estatee a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.