Daniel 11:6-7

11:6 After some years have passed, they ¹  will form an alliance. Then the daughter ²  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, ³  nor will he continue ⁴  in his strength. ⁵  She, together with the one who brought her, her child, ⁶  and her benefactor will all be delivered over at that time. ⁷ 

11:7 “There will arise in his ⁸  place one from her family line ⁹  who will come against their army and will enter the stronghold of the king of the north and will move against them successfully. ¹⁰ 

[11:6]  ¹ sn Here they refers to Ptolemy II Philadelphus (ca. 285-246 B.C.) and Antiochus II Theos (ca. 262-246 B.C.).

[11:6]  ² sn The daughter refers to Berenice, who was given in marriage to Antiochus II Theos.

[11:6]  ³ tn Heb “the strength of the arm.”

[11:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “stand.” So also in vv. 7, 8, 11, 13.

[11:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “and his arm.” Some understand this to refer to the descendants of the king of the north.

[11:6]  ⁶ 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.

[11:6]  ⁷ 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.

[11:7]  ⁸ sn The reference is to the king of Egypt.

[11:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “the stock of her roots.”

[11:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “will deal with them and prevail.”