But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.
But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him. Porphyry's statement that Antiochus, starting from Egypt, took Arad in Judah, and devastated all Phoenicia, agrees with Daniel 11:45.
But tidings out of the east and out of the north. Artaxias king of Armenia, his vassal, had revolted in the north, and Arsaces, leader of the Parthians, in the east (Tacitus, 'Histories,' 5: 8). In 147 BC Antiochus went on the expedition against them, on the return from which he died (1Ma 3:10-37 says that his expedition into Persia was with a view to replenish his exhausted treasury, in order to renew the war with Judas Maccabeus, who had overcome Apollonius and Serom).
Therefore he shall go forth with great fury - at the Jews, on account of their successes under Judas Maccabeus, on account of which he desired to replenish his treasury with means to prosecute the war with them; also at Artaxias and Arsaces, and their respective followers. De Burgh makes the 'tidings' which rouse his fury to be concerning the Jews' restoration: such may be the antitypical reference.