Daniel 7:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Ten kings; which Junius, Piscator, Polanus make to be the kings of Syria, and reckon ten of them, and that is not all neither; the tenth is Antiochus, but this cannot be, for he died one hundred and sixty years before Christ. Others interpret the other that riseth after the ten, and that shall subdue three, to be Mahomet; but Maldonate himself saith it agrees better to antichrist, and the 25th verse too, where he speaks of changing times and laws, which God hath set; none of which things he could do, but that God gives him commission for it, till God's set time be fulfilled, which is three years and a half, i.e. one thousand two hundred and sixty years; or forty-two months, which is all the time of the witnesses prophesying in sackcloth, of the church's being in the wilderness, and of antichrist's reign, Revelation 11:3, Revelation 12:6 13:5,6, &c.: mind these places and compare this of Daniel with them, and Daniel 7:26,27, how he shall be judged and executed. The sixth and seventh vials will decide, and illustrate all this.

Daniel 7:24

24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.