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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Daniel 11:1

Confirmed. Gabriel assisted Michael to comply with God's orders. (Chap. x. 21.) (Calmet) --- The angel continues his speech, and informs us that he had prayed for Darius after the fall of Babylon, seeing that he was well-inclined towards the Jews, as his successor Cyrus (who liberated them) was also. (Worthington)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XI _This chapter gives a more particular explanation of those_ _events which were predicted in the_ eighth _chapter. The prophet_ _had foretold the partition of Alexander's kingdom into fou...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    ALSO I - I the angel. He alludes here to what he had done on a former occasion to promote the interests of the Hebrew people, and to secure those arrangements which were necessary for their welfare -...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 11 THE WARS OF THE PTOLEMIES AND SELEUCIDAE PREDICTED THE COMING EVENTS OF THE END _ 1. The wars of the Ptolemies and Seleucidae (Daniel 11:1)_ 2. The time of the end and the man of sin (Dan...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DANIEL 11:1. This verse really belongs to Daniel 10, and should be taken as the final clause of the preceding paragraph. FIRST YEAR OF DARIUS: the mention of Darius is exceedingly difficult, as Daniel...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    This verse is parenthetical, to tell us what the angelic speaker had done two years previously (426 B.C.) DARIUS THE MEDE is the same king as in Daniel 9:1, i.e. Cyrus. STOOD. was at my station. HI...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Daniel 11:1. AND AS FOR ME, _in_… I STOOD UP TO BE A SUPPORTER _and_ A STRONGHOLD UNTO HIM] I myself, also, in the first year of Darius, came forward to support Michael. As soon as -Darius the Mede" ...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    ALSO I, IN THE FIRST YEAR— It is the usual method of the Holy Spirit, to make the later prophesies explanatory of the former; and revelation is _as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER ELEVEN V. THE CONTEMPTIBLE ONE Daniel 11:1-45 a. PROGENITORS (1) PERSIA AND GREECE TEXT: Daniel 11:1-4 1 And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to conform and str...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. This chapter is an enlargement of the eighth. ALSO I ... EVEN I - the angel, who was "like the appeara...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MICHAEL] see on Daniel 10:13, His intervention at this point indicates a special crisis in the fortunes of the Jews. THE BOOK] cp. Daniel 7:10. THE THIRD YEAR OF CYRUS] 636 b.c., the latest date ment...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FINAL VISION These chs, form a connected whole, with three sub-divisions. Daniel 10:1 to Daniel 11:1 are introductory; Daniel 11:2 to Daniel 12:4 co

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 11 V1 ‘Since the first year that Darius from Media ruled, I supported him’, he continued. ‘And I helped him.’ Verse 1 This is really p...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XI. (1) IN THE FIRST YEAR OF DARIUS. — These words must be closely connected with the last verse of Daniel 10. The allusion is, most probably, to the fall of Babylon and the return from the Exile, at...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ אֲנִי֙ בִּ שְׁנַ֣ת אַחַ֔ת לְ דָרְיָ֖וֶשׁ

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE RISE AND FALL OF EMPIRES Daniel 11:1-14 This chapter foretells the histories of Xerxes, of Alexander the Great, the division of his kingdom on his death, and the long conflicts between the kings...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The foretelling of the glorious One is contained in this chapter. It covered a period to the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, and finally referred to the Messianic kingdom. There would be yet three kings...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, [even] I, (a) stood to confirm and to strengthen him. (a) The angel assures Daniel that God has given him power to perform these things, seeing that he ap...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS We have here a long and particular account of Kings in Persia, and of the realm of Greece. Daniel receives the relation from the same person as in the foregoing Chapter. In the close, a shor...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here is a plain and evident inference to the kings and kingdom of Persia, which arose out of the Chaldean; and from the connection which the Church was obliged to have with this kingdom, after Cyrus h...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Interpreters explain this verse in various ways. Some think the angel fought for the Persian king, and follow up their opinion, because he did not for the first time begin now to defend that monarchy...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 AND 11. In chapter 10 we return to the East [1]. Chapter s 10, 11 and 12 form but one prophecy; only chapter 11 closes the history of the Gentiles, and cha...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    ALSO I, IN THE FIRST YEAR OF DARIUS THE MEDE,.... These words more properly belong to the preceding chapter, and should have concluded that, and the "eleventh" chapter should have begun in the next ve...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, [even] I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. Ver. 1. _Also I,_] _i.e., _ I, Gabriel the angel, glad of such an office, for the good of God's people,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Also I, in the first year of Darius_, &c. This verse should have been joined to the last chapter. The meaning of what the angel here says is, that from the time that Daniel addressed those ardent pra...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Daniel 11:1. ALSO I, IN THE FIRST YEAR OF DARIUS, THE MEDE, EVEN I, STOOD TO CONFIRM AND TO STRENGTHEN HIM, or, "even as I stood by to strengthen him," the inference being that the various angelic spi...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-30 The angel shows Daniel the succession of the Persian and Grecian empires. The kings of Egypt and Syria are noticed: Judea was between their dominions, and affected by their contests. From ver. D...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DANIEL CHAPTER 11 The overthrow of Persia by the king of Greeks, whose empire shall be divided, DANIEL 11:1. Leagues and conflicts between the kings of the south and of the north, DANIEL 11:5. The exp...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Daniel 11:1 first H259 year H8141 Darius H1867 Mede H4075 stood H5977 confirm H2388 (H8688) strengthen H4581...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecy covering the period from Darius to anti-Christ, showing the conflicts of nations, and final heading up for destruction. CHARACTERS: God, Daniel, Kings of Persia and Greece, anti-Ch...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Daniel 11:2. _There shall stand up yet three kings in Persia._ Daniel, a minister of state for most of his long life, was here shewn the succession of kingdoms in so clear a light as to command all me...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Also I in the first year of Darius._ THE VISION BY THE HIDDEKEL The prophet here tells of a long and devout season of fasting and prayer to which ha had given himself. It lasted “three full weeks.”...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DANIEL—NOTE ON DANIEL 11:1 Mention of THE FIRST YEAR OF DARIUS THE MEDE (539 B.C.) is significant since it was the year when the decree was issued that allowed the Jews to return to their homeland....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _HOMILETICS_ SECT. XXXVIII.—THE KINGS OF THE NORTH AND OF THE SOUTH. (Chap. Daniel 11:1.) We come to the things which the angel was commissioned to communicate to the prophet, and through him to the...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION DANIEL 11:1 THE KINGS OF THE NORTH AND THE KINGS OF THE SOUTH. Daniel 11:1

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now He begins to reveal unto Daniel these things are going to transpire, as far as the future is concerned. And here Daniel gets into such interesting details that many of the Bible critics have a dif...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 14:22; Daniel 10:18; Daniel 5:31; Daniel 9:1...

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