Text -- Daniel 8:9 (NET)

8:9 From one of them came a small horn. But it grew to be very big, toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Dan 8:9

¹ sn This small horn is Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who controlled the Seleucid kingdom from ca. 175-164 B.C. Antiochus was extremely hostile toward the Jews and persecuted them mercilessly.

² sn The expression the beautiful land (Heb. הַצֶּבִי [hatsÿvi] = “the beauty”) is a cryptic reference to the land of Israel. Cf. 11:16, 41, where it is preceded by the word אֶרֶץ (’erets, “land”).