Daniel 11:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

By gifts, preferments, and promises he drew away great multitudes of this wretched people of Judea, always bent to backsliding, to his idolatrous and heathenish practices and interest: but they that adhere to the true worship of God, and are zealous for it, shall scorn Antiochus's gifts, and abhor his ways, and defy his force, not loving their lives to the death; as you have many instances, /APC 1Ma 1:62,63; /APC 2Mac 5$ 6$ 7$ 8$; and also how Judas Maccabeus and his few followers did exploits against Nicanor and others.

Daniel 11:32

32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupti by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.