Daniel 11:26

Amplified Bible

"Yes, those who eat his fine food will betray and destroy him (Ptolemy VI), and his army will be swept away, and many will fall down slain.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Those who eat his provisions will destroy him; his army will be swept away, and many will fall slain.

Hebrew Names Version
Yes, they who eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow; and many shall fall down slain.

King James Version
Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.

English Standard Version
Even those who eat his food shall break him. His army shall be swept away, and many shall fall down slain.

New American Standard Bible
"Those who eat his choice food will destroy him, and his army will overflow, but many will fall down slain.

New Century Version
People who were supposed to be his good friends will try to destroy him. His army will be swept away in defeat; many of his soldiers will be killed in battle.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Yea, they that feede of the portion of his meate, shall destroy him: & his armie shall ouerflowe: and many shall fall, and be slaine.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Those who eat his choice food will destroy him, and his army will overflow, but many will fall down slain.

Berean Standard Bible
Those who eat from his provisions will seek to destroy him; his army will be swept away, and many will fall slain.

Contemporary English Version
by members of the royal court. He will be ruined, and most of his army will be slaughtered.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yes, those who shared his food will destroy him; his army will be swept away; and many will fall in the slaughter.

Darby Translation
And they that eat of his delicate food shall break him, and his army shall be dissolved; and many shall fall down slain.

Easy-to-Read Version
People who were supposed to be good friends of the southern king will try to destroy him. His army will be defeated. Many of his soldiers will be killed in battle.

George Lamsa Translation
Yea, those who eat of his delicacies shall destroy him, and his army shall be scattered; and many shall fall down slain.

Good News Translation
His closest advisers will ruin him. Many of his soldiers will be killed, and his army will be wiped out.

Lexham English Bible
And those who eat of his royal rations will break him and his army will be overwhelmed, and many will fall, slain.

Literal Translation
Yea, those who eat his food shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow. And many will fall down slain.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee they yt eate of his meate, shal hurte him: so that his hoost shal fall, & many be slayne downe.

American Standard Version
Yea, they that eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow; and many shall fall down slain.

Bible in Basic English
And his fears will overcome him and be the cause of his downfall, and his army will come to complete destruction, and a great number will be put to the sword.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yea, they that eat of his food shall destroy him, and his army shall be swept away; and many shall fall down slain.

King James Version (1611)
Yea they that feede of the portion of his meate, shall destroy him, and his armie shall ouerflow: and many shall fall downe slaine.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yea they that feede of the portion of his meate, shal destroy him, and his armie shall ouerflowe, and many shall fall and be slaine.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and they shall eat his provisions, and shall crush him, and he shall carry away armies as with a flood, and many shall fall down slain.

English Revised Version
Yea, they that eat of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.

World English Bible
Yes, they who eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow; and many shall fall down slain.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei that eeten breed with hym schulen al to-breke hym; and his oost schal be oppressid, and ful many men of hise schulen be slayn, and falle doun.

Update Bible Version
Yes, those that eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and his army shall flood; and many shall fall down slain.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yes, they that feed of the portion of his provisions shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.

New English Translation
Those who share the king's fine food will attempt to destroy him, and his army will be swept away; many will be killed in battle.

New King James Version
Yes, those who eat of the portion of his delicacies shall destroy him; his army shall be swept away, and many shall fall down slain.

New Living Translation
His own household will cause his downfall. His army will be swept away, and many will be killed.

New Life Bible
Those who eat his best food will destroy him. And his army will be driven away and many will be killed.

New Revised Standard
by those who eat of the royal rations. They shall break him, his army shall be swept away, and many shall fall slain.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, they who have been eating his delicacies, will break him in pieces, and, his army, will he overwhelm like a flood, - and many wounded, will fall.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they that eat bread with him, shall destroy him, and his army shall be overthrown: and many shall fall down slain.

Revised Standard Version
Even those who eat his rich food shall be his undoing; his army shall be swept away, and many shall fall down slain.

Young's Literal Translation
and those eating his portion of food destroy him, and his force overfloweth, and fallen have many wounded.

THE MESSAGE
"‘And I, in my turn, have been helping him out as best I can ever since the first year in the reign of Darius the Mede.' "‘But now let me tell you the truth of how things stand: Three more kings of Persia will show up, and then a fourth will become richer than all of them. When he senses that he is powerful enough as a result of his wealth, he will go to war against the entire kingdom of Greece. "‘Then a powerful king will show up and take over a huge territory and run things just as he pleases. But at the height of his power, with everything seemingly under control, his kingdom will split into four parts, like the four points of the compass. But his heirs won't get in on it. There will be no continuity with his kingship. Others will tear it to pieces and grab whatever they can get for themselves. "‘Next the king of the south will grow strong, but one of his princes will grow stronger than he and rule an even larger territory. After a few years, the two of them will make a pact, and the daughter of the king of the south will marry the king of the north to cement the peace agreement. But her influence will weaken and her child will not survive. She and her servants, her child, and her husband will be betrayed. "‘Sometime later a member of the royal family will show up and take over. He will take command of his army and invade the defenses of the king of the north and win a resounding victory. He will load up their tin gods and all the gold and silver trinkets that go with them and cart them off to Egypt. Eventually, the king of the north will recover and invade the country of the king of the south, but unsuccessfully. He will have to retreat. "‘But then his sons will raise a huge army and rush down like a flood, a torrential attack, on the defenses of the south. "‘Furious, the king of the south will come out and engage the king of the north and his huge army in battle and rout them. As the corpses are cleared from the field, the king, inflamed with bloodlust, will go on a bloodletting rampage, massacring tens of thousands. But his victory won't last long, for the king of the north will put together another army bigger than the last one, and after a few years he'll come back to do battle again with his immense army and endless supplies. "‘In those times, many others will get into the act and go off to fight against the king of the south. Hotheads from your own people, drunk on dreams, will join them. But they'll sputter out. "‘When the king of the north arrives, he'll build siege works and capture the outpost fortress city. The armies of the south will fall to pieces before him. Not even their famous commando shock troops will slow down the attacker. He'll march in big as you please, as if he owned the place. He'll take over that beautiful country, Palestine, and make himself at home in it. Then he'll proceed to get everything, lock, stock, and barrel, in his control. He'll cook up a peace treaty and even give his daughter in marriage to the king of the south in a plot to destroy him totally. But the plot will fizzle. It won't succeed. "‘Later, he'll turn his attention to the coastal regions and capture a bunch of prisoners, but a general will step in and put a stop to his bullying ways. The bully will be bullied! He'll go back home and tend to his own military affairs. But by then he'll be washed up and soon will be heard of no more. "‘He will be replaced shortly by a real loser, his rule, reputation, and authority already in shreds. And he won't last long. He'll slip out of history quietly, without even a fight. "‘His place will be taken by a reject, a man spurned and passed over for advancement. He'll surprise everyone, seemingly coming out of nowhere, and will seize the kingdom. He'll come in like a steamroller, flattening the opposition. Even the Prince of the Covenant will be crushed. After negotiating a cease-fire, he'll betray its terms. With a few henchmen, he'll take total control. Arbitrarily and impulsively, he'll invade the richest provinces. He'll surpass all his ancestors, near and distant, in his rape of the country, grabbing and looting, living with his cronies in corrupt and lavish luxury. "‘He will make plans against the fortress cities, but they'll turn out to be shortsighted. He'll get a great army together, all charged up to fight the king of the south. The king of the south in response will get his army—an even greater army—in place, ready to fight. But he won't be able to sustain that intensity for long because of the treacherous intrigue in his own ranks, his court having been honeycombed with vicious plots. His army will be smashed, the battlefield filled with corpses.

Contextual Overview

²¹"And in his place [in Syria] will arise a despicable and despised person, to whom royal majesty and the honor of kingship have not been conferred, but he will come [without warning] in a time of tranquility and seize the kingdom by intrigue. ²²"The overwhelming forces [of the invading armies of Egypt] will be flooded away before him and smashed; and also the prince of the covenant [will be smashed]. ²³"After an alliance is made with him he will work deceitfully, and he will go up and gain power with a small force of people. ²⁴"In a time of tranquility, [without warning] he will enter the most productive and richest parts of the kingdom [of Egypt], and he will accomplish that which his fathers never did, nor his fathers' fathers; he will distribute plunder, spoil and goods among them. He will devise plans against strongholds, but only for a time [decreed by God]. ²⁵"He will stir up his strength and courage against [his former Egyptian ally] the king of the South (Ptolemy VI) with a great army; so the king of the South will prepare an extremely great and powerful army to wage war, but he will not stand, for schemes will be devised against him. ²⁶"Yes, those who eat his fine food will betray and destroy him (Ptolemy VI), and his army will be swept away, and many will fall down slain.²⁷"And as for both of these kings, their hearts will be set on doing evil; they will speak lies over the same table, but it will not succeed, for the end is yet to come at the appointed time. ²⁸"Then he (Antiochus IV Epiphanes) will return to his land with great treasure (plunder); and his heart will be set against the holy covenant, and he will take action and return to his own land (Syria). ²⁹"At the time appointed [by God] he will return and come into the South, but this last time will not be successful as were the previous invasions [of Egypt]. ³⁰"For ships of Cyprus [in Roman hands] will come against him; therefore he will be discouraged and turn back [to Israel] and carry out his rage against the holy covenant and take action; so he will return and show favoritism toward those [Jews] who abandon (break) the holy covenant [with God].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that feed: 2 Samuel 4:2-12, 2 Kings 8:14, 2 Kings 10:6-9, Psalms 41:9, Micah 7:5, Micah 7:6, Matthew 26:23, Mark 14:20, John 13:18

overflow: Daniel 11:10, Daniel 11:22

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 41:1 - they did

Cross-References

Genesis 11:4
They said, "Come, let us build a city for ourselves, and a tower whose top will reach into the heavens, and let us make a [famous] name for ourselves, so that we will not be scattered [into separate groups] and be dispersed over the surface of the entire earth [as the LORD instructed]."

Genesis 11:5
Now the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

Genesis 11:20
When Reu had lived thirty-two years, he became the father of Serug.

Genesis 11:24
When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah.

Genesis 11:26
After Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram and Nahor and Haran [his firstborn].

Genesis 11:27
Now these are the records of the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram (Abraham), Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

Joshua 24:2
Joshua said to all the people, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says, 'Your fathers, including Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, lived beyond the [Euphrates] River in ancient times; and they served other gods.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him,.... Those of his own household, his familiar friends, his courtiers and counsellors, and the generals of his army; his destruction, or the loss of the battle, was owing either to the bad counsels they gave him, or to their desertion of him, being corrupted by Antiochus:

and his army shall overflow: that is, the army of Antiochus, like a mighty inundation of water, which carries all before it, should overflow, or bear down and destroy, the army of Ptolemy, and overrun all Egypt, as it did, as before related; no more resistance being to be made to it than to a rapid flood of water:

and many shall fall down slain: of the army of the king of Egypt. The account given of this affair in the Apocrypha:

"18 And made war against Ptolemee king of Egypt: but Ptolemee was afraid of him, and fled; and many were wounded to death. 19 Thus they got the strong cities in the land of Egypt and he took the spoils thereof.'' (1 Maccabees 1)

Josephus says x, that Antiochus,

"being with a great army at Pelusium, and circumventing Ptolemy Philometor by fraud, seized on Egypt; and being in the parts near to Memphis, and taking it, he hastened to Alexandria to besiege it, and got Ptolemy, reigning there, into his hands.''

x Antiqu. l. 12. c. 5, sect. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him - They of his own family; they who are nourished at his table; they who are his cabinet counselors, and professed and confidential friends. The meaning is, that they would prove treacherous and unfaithful. This is by no means improbable. Antiochus was powerful, and had seized upon Pelusium, and upon Memphis, and upon the fairest portions of Egypt. He was also in possession of the person of the lawful king, and had a fair prospect of subduing the whole country. In these circumstances, nothing would be more natural than that the very inmates of the palace - the persons around the reigning king - should begin to doubt whether he could hold out, and should be disposed to make terms with the invader.

And his army shall overflow - The connection here requires us to understand this of the army of the king of Egypt. The meaning seems to be, that his forces would be great, and would spread themselves out like overflowing waters, but that not withstanding this many of them would be slain.

And many shall fall down slain - In battle. Not withstanding the army would be numerous, and would, as it were, spread over the land, still it would not be sufficient to keep out the invaders, but many of them would fall in the field. The account in 1 Macc. 1:18 is, that “Ptolemy was afraid of him (Antiochus) and fled; and many were wounded to death.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 26. Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat — This is the proof of what has been last noted, that the intrigues of Antiochus, corrupting the ministers and officers of Ptolemy, were the cause of all the disasters that felt on the Egyptian king. They that fed of the portion of his meat - who were in his confidence and pay, and possessed the secrets of the state, betrayed him; and these were the means of destroying him and his army, so that he was defeated, as was before observed.