Daniel 11:40 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

Daniel 11:40. At this point history ends and prophecy begins. The rest of the chapter relates to the future. As Driver says (CB, p. 197), The author draws here an imaginative picture of the end of the tyrant king, similar to the ideal one of the time of Sennacherib in Isaiah 10:28-32. In this verse there is a forecast of a successful campaign against the king of the south, i.e. Ptolemy Philometor.

Daniel 11:40

40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.