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And one who passes over a tax exacter shall stand in his place, for the glory of the kingdom. But within a few days he will be shattered, but not in anger and not in battle.

And a despised one shall stand up on his place, and they shall not give to him the honor of the king. But he shall come in while at ease and make strong the kingdom by intrigues.

And the forces of the overflow shall be swept from before his face, and they will be shattered, and also the ruler of a covenant.

And after they join themselves to him, he will practice deceit; for he shall come and shall be strong with a few people.

He will go in safely, even into the rich places of the province. And he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers. He shall plunder and spoil and scatter goods amongthem. And he shall devise his plots againstthe strongholds, even for a time.

And he will stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south will be stirred up to battle with a great and very mighty army. But he shall not stand, for they will devise plots againsthim.

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

And both of them, the kings, shall have in their hearts to do evil, and they will speak lies at one table. But it will not prosper, for the end still shall be at the appointed time.

And he will return to his land with great wealth. And his heart shall be against the holy covenant. And he will act, and he shall return to his land.

At the appointed time he will return and come against the south. But it will not be as the former or as the latter.

For the Kittim ships will come against him. And he will be pained and turn back and be furious against the holy covenant. And he will act, and he will return and heed the forsakers of the holy covenant.

And forces will stand away from him, and they will profane the sanctuary, the fortress. And they shall remove the regular sacrifice , and they will place the abomination that desolates.

And he will defile by flatteries those who do evil against the covenant. But the people who know their God will be strong and will work.

And those who understand among the people will instruct many, yet they will stumble by the sword and by flame, by exile and spoil for days.

And when they shall stumble, they will be helped with a little help. But many will join them with hypocrisy.

And many of those who understand shall stumble, to refine and to purge them, and to make white to the time of the end. For it is yet for the appointed time.

And the king shall do according to his will. And he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god; he shall even speak marvelous things against the God of gods and shall prosper until thefury is completed. For that which is decreedshall be done.

He shall not regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women; yea, he will not come to any god. For he shall magnify himself above all.

But in his place he shall honor the god of forces, and he shall honor a god whom his fathers did not know, with gold and silver and with precious stones, and desirable things.

And he shall act in the strongholds of the fortresses with a foreign god, whom he shall acknowledge. He shall multiply in glory, and he shall cause them to rule over many and shall divide the land for a price.