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.
him: i.e. Michael.
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...
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 -...
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...
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...
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" ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
וַ אֲנִי֙ בִּ שְׁנַ֣ת אַחַ֔ת לְ דָרְיָ֖וֶשׁ
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...
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...
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...
_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, se...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
Daniel 11:1 first H259 year H8141 Darius H1867 Mede H4075 stood H5977 confirm H2388 (H8688) strengthen H4581...
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...
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...
_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.”...
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....
_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...
EXPOSITION DANIEL 11:1 THE KINGS OF THE NORTH AND THE KINGS OF THE SOUTH. Daniel 11:1
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...
Acts 14:22; Daniel 10:18; Daniel 5:31; Daniel 9:1...