So the king of the south shall come into [his] kingdom, and shall return into his own land.
Ver. 9. So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom.] Called out of Syria by a commotion at home, the Parthians invading Egypt; but he soon quelled them, and quieted his own country. Josephus a writeth that this Ptolemy Euergetes, in his return out of Syria, went to Jerusalem, and in thankfulness to the God of the Jews, offered his oblations at the temple there. Of his father Philadelphus also he reporteth, that he redeemed one hundred and twenty thousand Jews that were slaves in Egypt, and sent them home, and bestowed many rich gifts upon the temple at Jerusalem. b
a Lib. ii. cont. Appian.
b Antiq., lib. ii. cap. 2.