Daniel 11:1-7

1 He acompañado a Miguel
para apoyarlo y fortalecerlo desde el primer año del reinado de Darío el medo).

2 Los reyes del sur y del norte
»Ahora te daré a conocer la verdad. Reinarán otros tres reyes persas y seguirá un cuarto rey, mucho más rico que los otros. Usará su riqueza para incitar a todos a luchar contra el reino de Grecia.

3 »Entonces surgirá un rey poderoso que gobernará con gran autoridad y logrará todo lo que se proponga.

4 Pero cuando esté en la cumbre de su poder, su reino será quebrado y dividido en cuatro partes. Este reino no será gobernado por los descendientes del rey, ni tendrá el poder que tuvo antes. Pues su imperio será arrancado de raíz y entregado a otros.

5 »El rey del sur crecerá en poder, pero uno de sus propios funcionarios llegará a ser más poderoso que él y gobernará el reino con gran autoridad.

6 »Algunos años después, se formará una alianza entre el rey del norte y el rey del sur. El rey del sur dará a su hija en matrimonio al rey del norte para asegurar la alianza, pero tanto ella como su padre perderán su influencia sobre el rey. Ella será abandonada junto con todos sus partidarios.

7 No obstante, cuando uno de sus parientes
llegue a ser el rey del sur, este levantará un ejército, entrará en la fortaleza del rey del norte y lo derrotará.

Daniel 11:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

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, Da 11:1, he foretells the number of the kings of Persia, and particularly describes the fourth, Da 11:2 predicts the rise of the Grecian monarchy under Alexander the great, and the disposition of it after his death, Da 11:3,4 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, Da 11:5,6 and then of their various wars between themselves and others, and the success of them, Da 11:7-20, 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, Da 11:21-29 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, Da 11:30-35, and then his antitype, antichrist, is described; the western antichrist, his character and actions, Da 11:36-39 then the eastern, his power, wealth and riches, hail and rain, Da 11:40-45.