Daniel 11:22

11:22 Armies ¹  will be suddenly ²  swept away in defeat ³  before him; both they and a covenant leader ⁴  will be destroyed. ⁵ 

Daniel 11:31

11:31 His forces ⁶  will rise up and profane the fortified sanctuary, ⁷  stopping the daily sacrifice. In its place they will set up ⁸  the abomination that causes desolation.

Daniel 11:6

11:6 After some years have passed, they ⁹  will form an alliance. Then the daughter ¹⁰  of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement, but she will not retain her power, ¹¹  nor will he continue ¹²  in his strength. ¹³  She, together with the one who brought her, her child, ¹⁴  and her benefactor will all be delivered over at that time. ¹⁵ 

Daniel 10:6

10:6 His body resembled yellow jasper, ¹⁶  and his face had an appearance like lightning. His eyes were like blazing torches; ¹⁷  his arms and feet had the gleam of polished bronze. His voice ¹⁸  thundered forth like the sound of a large crowd.

Daniel 11:15

11:15 Then the king of the north will advance and will build siege mounds and capture a well-fortified city. ¹⁹  The forces of the south will not prevail, not even his finest contingents. ²⁰  They will have no strength to prevail.

¹ tn Heb “arms.”

² tc The present translation reads הִשָּׁטֹף (hishatof), Niphal infinitive absolute of שָׁטַף (shataf, “to overflow”), for the MT הַשֶּׁטֶף (hashetef, “flood”).

³ tn The words “in defeat” are added in the translation for clarification.

⁴ tn Heb “a prince of the covenant.”

⁵ tn Heb “broken” or “shattered.”

⁶ tn Heb “arms.”

⁷ tn Heb “the sanctuary, the fortress.”

⁸ tn Heb “will give.”

¹¹ sn Here they refers to Ptolemy II Philadelphus (ca. 285-246 B.C.) and Antiochus II Theos (ca. 262-246 B.C.).

¹² sn The daughter refers to Berenice, who was given in marriage to Antiochus II Theos.

¹³ tn Heb “the strength of the arm.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “stand.” So also in vv. 7, 8, 11, 13.

¹⁵ tn Heb “and his arm.” Some understand this to refer to the descendants of the king of the north.

¹⁶ tc The present translation reads יַלְדָּה (yaldah, “her child”) rather than the MT יֹלְדָהּ (yolÿdah, “the one who begot her”). Cf. Theodotion, the Syriac, and the Vulgate.

¹⁷ sn Antiochus II eventually divorced Berenice and remarried his former wife Laodice, who then poisoned her husband, had Berenice put to death, and installed her own son, Seleucus II Callinicus (ca. 246-227 B.C.), as the Seleucid king.

¹⁶ tn The Hebrew word translated “yellow jasper” is תַּרשִׁישׁ (tarshish); it appears to be a semiprecious stone, but its exact identity is somewhat uncertain. It may be the yellow jasper, although this is conjectural. Cf. NAB, NIV “chrysolite”; NASB, NRSV “beryl.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “torches of fire.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “The sound of his words” (cf. v. 9).

²¹ sn This well-fortified city is apparently Sidon. Its capture from the Ptolemies by Antiochus the Great was a strategic victory for the Seleucid kingdom.

²² tn Or “choice troops” (BDB 104 s.v. מִבְחָר), or “elite troops” (HALOT 542 s.v. מִבְחָר).