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Daniel 11

Conflicts to Come

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"In the  afirst year of Darius the Mede,  1I arose to be  2an encouragement and a protection for him.

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"And now I will tell you the  atruth. Behold, three more kings are going to arise  1in Persia. Then a fourth will gain far more riches than all of them; as soon as he becomes strong through his riches,  2he will arouse the whole empire against the realm of  3 bGreece.

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"And a  amighty king will arise, and he will rule with great authority and  bdo as he pleases.

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"But as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out  atoward the  bfour  1points of the compass, though not to his own descendants, nor according to his authority which he wielded, for his sovereignty will be  cuprooted and given to others besides  2them.

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"Then the  aking of the South will grow strong,  1along with one of his princes  2who will gain ascendancy over him and obtain dominion; his domain will be a great dominion indeed.

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"After some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will come to the  aking of the North to carry out  1a peaceful arrangement. But she will not retain her  2position of power, nor will he remain with his  3power, but she will be given up, along with those who brought her in and the one who sired her as well as he who supported her in those times.

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"But one of the  1descendants of her line will arise in his place, and he will come against their army and enter the  afortress of the king of the North, and he will deal with them and display great strength.

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"Also their  agods with their  1metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold he will take into captivity to Egypt, and he on his part will  2refrain from attacking the king of the North for some years.

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"Then  1the latter will enter the realm of the king of the South, but will return to his own land.

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"His sons will  1mobilize and assemble a multitude of great forces; and one of them will keep on coming and  aoverflow and pass through, that he may  2again wage war up to his very fortress.

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"The  aking of the South will be enraged and go forth and fight  1with the king of the North. Then the latter will raise a great multitude, but that multitude will be given into  2the hand of the former.

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"When the multitude is carried away, his heart will be lifted up, and he will cause tens of thousands to fall; yet he will not prevail.

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"For the king of the North will again raise a greater multitude than the former, and  1after an  ainterval of some years he will  2press on with a great army and much equipment.

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"Now in those times many will rise up against the king of the South; the violent ones among your people will also lift themselves up in order to fulfill the vision, but they will  1fall down.

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"Then the king of the North will come, cast up a  asiege ramp and capture a well-fortified city; and the forces of the South will not stand their ground, not even  1their choicest troops, for there will be no strength to make a stand.

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"But he who comes against him will  ado as he pleases, and  bno one will be able to withstand him; he will also stay for a time in the  1 cBeautiful Land, with destruction in his hand.

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"He will  aset his face to come with the power of his whole kingdom,  1bringing with him  2a proposal of peace which he will put into effect; he will also give him the daughter of women to ruin it. But she will not take a stand for him or be  3on his side.

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"Then he will turn his face to the  acoastlands and capture many. But a commander will put a stop to his scorn against him; moreover, he will  brepay him for his scorn.

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"So he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will  astumble and fall and be  bfound no more.

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"Then in his place one will arise who will  asend an  1oppressor through the  2Jewel of his kingdom; yet within a few days he will be shattered, though not in anger nor in battle.

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"In his place a despicable person will arise, on whom the honor of kingship has not been conferred, but he will come in a time of tranquility and  aseize the kingdom by intrigue.

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"The overflowing  aforces will be flooded away before him and shattered, and also the prince of the covenant.

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"After an alliance is made with him he will practice deception, and he will go up and gain power with a small force of people.

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1In a time of tranquility he will enter the  arichest parts of the  2realm, and he will accomplish what his fathers never did, nor his  3ancestors; he will distribute plunder, booty and possessions among them, and he will devise his schemes against strongholds, but only for a time.

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"He will stir up his strength and  1courage against the  aking of the South with a large army; so the king of the South will mobilize an extremely large and mighty army for war; but he will not stand, for schemes will be devised against him.

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"Those who eat his choice food will  1destroy him, and his army will  2 aoverflow, but many will fall down slain.

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"As for both kings, their hearts will be intent on  aevil, and they will  bspeak lies to each other at the same table; but it will not succeed, for the  cend is still to come at the appointed time.

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"Then he will return to his land with much  1plunder; but his heart will be set against the holy covenant, and he will take action and then return to his own land.

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"At the appointed time he will return and come into the South, but  1this last time it will not turn out the way it did before.

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"For ships of  1 aKittim will come against him; therefore he will be disheartened and will return and become enraged at the holy covenant and take action; so he will come back and show regard for those who forsake the holy covenant.

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"Forces from him will arise,  adesecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the  babomination  1of desolation.

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"By  asmooth words he will  1turn to godlessness those who act wickedly toward the covenant, but the people who know their God will display  bstrength and take action.

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1 aThose who have insight among the people will give understanding to the many; yet they will  bfall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder for many days.

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"Now when they fall they will be granted a little help, and many will  ajoin with them in  bhypocrisy.

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"Some of  1those who have insight will fall, in order to  arefine,  bpurge and make them  2 cpure until the  dend time; because it is still to come at the appointed time.

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"Then the king will  ado as he pleases, and he will exalt and  bmagnify himself above every god and will  cspeak  1monstrous things against the  dGod of gods; and he will prosper until the  eindignation is finished, for that which is  fdecreed will be done.

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"He will show no regard for the  1gods of his fathers or for the desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will magnify himself above them all.

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"But  1instead he will honor a god of fortresses, a god whom his fathers did not know; he will honor him with gold, silver, costly stones and treasures.

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"He will take action against the strongest of fortresses with the help of a foreign god; he will give great honor to  1those who acknowledge him and will cause them to rule over the many, and will parcel out land for a price.

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"At the  aend time the  bking of the South will collide with him, and the  cking of the North will  dstorm against him with chariots, with horsemen and with many ships; and he will enter countries,  eoverflow them and pass through.

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"He will also enter the  1 aBeautiful Land, and many countries will fall; but these will be rescued out of his hand: Edom,  bMoab and the foremost of the sons of  cAmmon.

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"Then he will stretch out his hand against other countries, and the land of Egypt will not escape.

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"But he will  1gain control over the hidden treasures of gold and silver and over all the precious things of Egypt; and  aLibyans and  bEthiopians will follow at his  2heels.

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"But rumors from the East and from the North will disturb him, and he will go forth with great wrath to destroy and  1annihilate many.

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"He will pitch the tents of his royal pavilion between the seas and the beautiful  aHoly Mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.



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