Daniel 11:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

With their precious vessels of silver and of gold; which with other vessels amounted to two thousand five hundred, among which were the images which Cambyses long before had carried out of Egypt into Persia; for which good act the Egyptians called this Ptolemy, Euergetes, the Benefactor. He shall continue more years than the king of the north; he continued forty-six years, and had subdued all Seleucus's kingdom, had he not been recalled.

Daniel 11:8

8 And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their preciousa vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north.