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Daniel 11:20

Daniel 11:20
Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom,.... This was not Antiochus Epiphanes, as Theodoret, he is designed in the next verse; nor Ptolemy Epiphanes; as…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Then shall stand up in his estate - Margin, “or, place.” The word used - כן kên - means, properly, “a stand, station, place” (see the notes at Dan 11:7), and the idea here is simply that he would be…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes - Seleucus Philopater succeeded his father Antiochus. He sent his treasurer Heliodorus to seize the money deposited in the temple of Jerusalem,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Daniel 11:5-20

Here are foretold,

I. The rise and power of two great kingdoms out of the remains of Alexander's conquests, Dan 11:5. 1. The kingdom of Egypt, which was made considerable by Ptolemaeus Lagus, one of…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Seleucus IV. (Philopator), b.c. 187 175.

Antiochus the Great left two sons, Seleucus and Antiochus (Epiphanes), both of whom successively followed him on the throne.

And in his place (Dan 11:11)…

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