Daniel 11 - Introduction

INTRODUCTION TO DANIEL 11

In this chapter the angel makes good his promise to Daniel, that he would show him what was written in the Scripture of truth, concerning the monarchies of the earth, and what would befall his people the Jews in the latter days; and after he had observed that he had strengthened and confirmed Darius the Mede, who was the first king of the then present flourishing monarchy, Daniel 11:1, he foretells the number of the kings of Persia, and particularly describes the fourth, Daniel 11:2 predicts the rise of the Grecian monarchy under Alexander the great, and the disposition of it after his death, Daniel 11:3 and then proceeds to give an account of the two principal kingdoms of that monarchy, into which it was divided, the Seleucidae and Lagidae; and of their kings, the king of Egypt, and the king of Syria, under the names of the king of the south, and the king of the north, and of their power and agreement, Daniel 11:5 and then of their various wars between themselves and others, and the success of them, Daniel 11:7, and particularly of Antiochus, his character and manner of coming to the kingdom, and of his wars with the king of Egypt, and the issue of them, Daniel 11:21 and of his persecution of the Jews, and the distress he should bring on them, and the use it should be of to the godly among them, Daniel 11:30, and then his antitype, antichrist, is described; the western antichrist, his character and actions, Daniel 11:36 then the eastern, his power, wealth and riches, hail and rain, Daniel 11:40.