the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Daniel 11:3
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Then a warrior king will arise; he will rule a vast realm and do whatever he wants.
A mighty king shall stand up, who shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and do as he wills.
"And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great authority and do as he pleases.
Then a mighty king will come, who will rule with great power and will do anything he wants.
"Then a mighty [warlike, threatening] king will arise who will rule with great authority and do as he pleases.
But a mightie King shall stand vp, that shall rule with great dominion, and doe according to his pleasure.
"And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great authority and do as he pleases.
Then a mighty king will arise, who will rule with great authority and do as he pleases.
Then a mighty king will come to power and will be able to do whatever he pleases.
"Then a powerful king will appear who will rule a vast kingdom and do whatever he pleases.
And a mighty king shall stand up that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
Then a very strong and powerful king will come who will rule with much power. He will do anything he wants.
And a mighty king shall arise, and he shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
"Then a heroic king will appear. He will rule over a huge empire and do whatever he wants.
And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great dominion, and he will do as he pleases.
And a mighty king shall stand up and shall rule with great authority and do according to his will.
And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
And a strong king will come to power, ruling with great authority and doing whatever is his pleasure.
And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
And a mighty King shal stand vp, that shall rule with great dominion, and doe according to his will.
Then shall there arise yet a mightie king, that shal rule with great dominion, and do what him list.
An there shall rise up a mighty king, and he shall be lord of a great empire, and shall do according to his will.
And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
A mighty king shall stand up, who shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
Forsothe a strong kyng schal rise, and shal be lord in greet power, and schal do that, that schal plese hym.
And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
Then a powerful king will arise, exercising great authority and doing as he pleases.
Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
"Then a mighty king will rise to power who will rule with great authority and accomplish everything he sets out to do.
Then a powerful king will rise up, and he will rule with power and do as he pleases.
Then a warrior king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and take action as he pleases.
And so a hero king, will arise, - and wield great authority, and do according to his own pleasure;
But there shall rise up a strong king, and shall rule with great power: and he shall do what he pleaseth.
Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and do according to his will.
And a mighty king hath stood, and he hath ruled a great dominion, and hath done according to his will;
"‘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.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a mighty: Alexander the Great, whose kingdom after his death, as we have seen, was divided into four parts. Daniel 7:6, Daniel 8:5-8, Daniel 8:21
do: Daniel 11:16, Daniel 11:36, Daniel 4:35, Daniel 5:19, Daniel 8:4-14, Ephesians 1:11, Hebrews 2:4, James 1:18
Reciprocal: Daniel 2:32 - belly Daniel 2:39 - another third Daniel 11:5 - and one Zechariah 6:6 - go forth after
Cross-References
And sayde: Come, let vs buylde a cite & a tower, whose toppe maye reach vnto heaue, yt we maye make vs a name, afore we be scatred abrode in all londes.
And ye LORDE saide: Beholde, the people is one, & haue one maner of language amoge the all, & this haue they begonne to do, & wil not leaue of from all yt they haue purposed to do.
Come on, let vs go downe, & cofounde their tonge eue there, yt one vnderstonde not what another saieth.
Peleg was thirtie yeare olde, and begat Regu,
And yt brode valley had many slyme pyttes. But the kynge of Sodoma and Gomorra were put to flight, & fell there, & the residue fled vnto ye mountaynes.
and made their lyues bytter vnto them with greuous laboure in claye and brycke, and with allmaner of bondage in ye felde, and with allmaner of laboure, which they layed vpon them without mercy.
And whan she coude hyde him no longer, she toke an Arke of redes, and dawbed it ouer with slyme and pitch, and layed the childe therin, and set it amonge the redes by the waters brynke.
As for the people that was therin, he broughte the forth, and layed them vnder yron sawes and hokes and wedges of yron, and burned the in tyle ouens. Thus dyd he vnto all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then returned Dauid and all the people vnto Ierusalem agayne.
They haue deuysed myschefe, and commoned amonge them selues, how they maye laye snares: tush (saye they) who shall se them?
yf they entyse the, and saye: come wyth us, let us laye wayte for bloude, & lurke preuely for the innocet wythout a cause:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And a mighty king shall stand up,.... Not in Persia, but in Greece; Alexander the great, who rose up a hundred years after the above expedition of Xerxes, and "stood" and flourished, and conquered all he attacked, none being able to resist him; and is rightly called a "mighty king", a very powerful one: this is the notable horn in the he goat, which being exasperated by the ram, the Persians, and their invasion of Greece, pushed at them, and destroyed them, Daniel 8:5: that shall rule with great dominion; not in Greece only but in the whole world, at least as he thought, and really did over a very great part of it; for, as Jerome says, having conquered the Illyrians, Thracians, Greece, and Thebes, he passed into Asia; and, having put to flight the generals of Darius, he took the city of Sardis, and afterwards India.
And do according to his will; not only in his own army, sacrificing his best friends at his pleasure; but with his enemies, conquering whom he would, none being able to withstand him; all things succeeded to his wish; whatever he attempted he performed. His historian o says of him,
"that it must be owned he owed much to virtue, but more to fortune, which alone of all mortals he had in his power;''
since, by the benefit of it, he seemed to do with nations whatever he pleased; he was sovereign in all things, and set himself to be worshipped as a deity.
o Curtius, l. 10. c. 5.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And a mighty king shall stand up - So far as the language here is concerned, it is not said whether this would be in Persia, as a successor of the “fourth king” Daniel 11:2, or whether it would be in some other part of the world. The next verse, however, shows that the reference is to Alexander the Great - for to no other one is it applicable. There were several monarchs of Persia, indeed, that succeeded Xerxes before the kingdom was invaded and subdued by Alexander (see the notes at Daniel 11:2), and these are here entirely passed over without being alluded to. It must be admitted, that one who should have read this prophecy before the events had occurred would have inferred naturally that this “mighty king that should stand up” would appeal immediately after the “fourth, “and probably that he would be his successor in the realm; but it may be remarked,
(a) that the language here is not inconsistent with the facts in the case - it being literally true that such a “mighty king” did “stand up” who “ruled with great dominion, and according to his will;”
(b) that there was no necessity in the prophetic history of referring to the acts of these intermediate kings of Persia, since they did not contribute at all to the result - it being well known that the reason alleged by Alexander for his invasion of the Persian empire was not anything which they had done, but the wrongs sustained by Greece in consequence of the invasion by Xerxes and his predecessor. The real succession of events in the case was that last invasion of Greece by Xerxes, and the consequent invasion of the Persian empire by Alexander. It was these transactions which the angel evidently meant to connect together, and hence, all that was intermediate was omitted. Thus Alexander, in his letter to Darius, says: “Your ancestors entered into Macedonia, and the other parts of Greece, and did us damage, when they had received no affront from us as the cause of it; and now I, created general of the Grecians, provoked by you, and desirous of avenging the injury done by the Persians, have passed over into Asia.” - Arrian, Exped. Alex. i. 2.
That shall rule with great dominion - That shall have a wide and extended empire. The language here would apply to any of the monarchs of Persia that succeeded Xerxes, but it would be more strictly applicable to Alexander the Great than to any prince of ancient or modern times. The whole world, except Greece, was supposed to be subject to the power of Persia; and it was one of the leading and avowed purposes of Darius and Xerxes in invading Greece, by adding that to their empire, to have the earth under their control. When, therefore, Alexander had conquered Persia, it was supposed that he had subdued the world; nor was it an unnatural feeling that, having done this, he, whose sole principle of action was ambition, should sit down and weep because there were no more worlds to conquer. In fact, he then swayed a scepter more extended and mighty than any before him had done, and it is with peculiar propriety that the language here is used in regard to him.
And do according to his will - Would be an arbitrary prince. This also was true of the Persian kings, and of Oriental despots generally; but it was eminently so of Alexander - who, in subduing kingdoms, conquering mighty armies, controlling the million under his sway, laying the foundations of cities, and newly arranging the boundaries of empires, seemed to consult only his own will, and felt that everything was to be subordinate to it. It is said that this passage was shown to Alexander by the high priest of the Jews, and that these prophecies did much to conciliate his favor toward the Hebrew people.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Daniel 11:3. A mighty king shall stand up — This was Alexander the Great. It is not said that this mighty king shall stand up against Xerxes, for he was not born till one hundred years after that monarch; but simply that he should stand up, i.e., that he should reign in Greece.
