Daniel Chapter 11
Annotated Commentary with Links
| 1“As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him. | There is no current historical record of Darius the Mede, but from the text of Daniel, he appears to have ruled Babylon for a very short time until Cyrus, the king of Persia, took over personal rule of Babylon. |
| 2“Now will I show you the truth. Behold, three more kings will stand up in Persia; and the fourth will be far richer than all of them. When he has grown strong through his riches, he will stir up all against the realm of Greece. | Cyrus was succeeded by his son Cambyses, who was succeeded by a ruler known as Pseudo-Smerdis. Pseudo-Smerdis was, in turn, killed and replaced by Darius I, a court official not related to Cyrus. The fourth king after Cyrus was Xerxes I, the son of Darius, Xerxes the first invaded Greece in 481 BC but was ultimately defeated. |
| 3A mighty king will stand up, who will rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. | |
| 4When he stands up, his kingdom will be broken, and will be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posteriety, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these. | |
| 5“The king of the south will be strong. One of his princes will become stronger than him, and have dominion. His dominion will be a great dominion. |
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