Daniel 11:13

13 Porque o rei do norte tornará, e porá em campo uma multidão maior do que a primeira; e ao cabo de tempos, isto é, de anos, avançará com grande exército e abundantes provisões.

Daniel 11:13 Meaning and Commentary

Daniel 11:13

For the king of the north shall return
As Antiochus king of Syria did, upon the death of Ptolemy Philopator, who was succeeded by his son Ptolemy Epiphanes, a minor of five years of age: Antiochus took the advantage of this minority, and entered into a league with Philip king of Macedon, to divide the kingdom of Egypt between them; and marched an army into Coelesyria and Palestine, and made himself master of those countries: and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former;
bring a larger army into the field than he had done before, which Jerom says he brought out of the upper parts of Babylon; some say it consisted of three hundred thousand footmen, besides horsemen and elephants: and shall certainly come (after certain years) with a great army, and
with much riches;
with all manner of provisions to supply his numerous army, and all proper accommodations for it; money to pay his soldiers, and beasts of burden to carry their baggage from place to place: this was about fourteen years after the former battle, as Dr. Prideaux ^F16 observes; and, according to Bishop Usher's annals, thirteen years.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Connexion, par. 2. B. 2. p. 140.

Daniel 11:13 In-Context

11 Então o rei do sul se exasperará, e sairá, e pelejará contra ele, contra o rei do norte; este porá em campo grande multidão, e a multidão será entregue na mão daquele.

12 E a multidão será levada, e o coração dele se exaltará; mas, ainda que derrubará miríades, não prevalecerá.

13 Porque o rei do norte tornará, e porá em campo uma multidão maior do que a primeira; e ao cabo de tempos, isto é, de anos, avançará com grande exército e abundantes provisões.

14 E, naqueles tempos, muitos se levantarão contra o rei do sul; e os violentos dentre o teu povo se levantarão para cumprir a visão, mas eles cairão.

15 Assim virá o rei do norte, e levantará baluartes, e tomará uma cidade bem fortificada; e as forças do sul não poderão resistir, nem o seu povo escolhido, pois não haverá força para resistir.