es, and shall
forecast devices against the best fenced places: and this until a time.

11:25. And his strength, and his heart, shall be stirred up aginst the
king of the south, with a great army: and the king of the south shall be
stirred up to battle with many and very strong succours: and they shall
not stand, for they shall form designs against him.

The king... Ptolemeus Philometor.

11:26. And they that eat bread with him, shall destroy him, and his army
shall be overthrown: and many shall fall down slain.

11:27. And the heart of the two kings shall be to do evil, and they
shall speak lies at one table, and they shall not prosper: because as
yet the end is unto another time.

11:28. And he shall return into his land with much riches: and his heart
shall be aginst the holy covenant, and he shall succeed, and shall
return into his own land.

11:29. At the time appointed he shall return, and he shall come to the
south, but the latter time shall not be like the former.

11:30. And the galleys and the Romans shall come upon him, and he shall
be struck, and shall return, and shall have indignation against
thecovenant of the sanctuary, and he shall succeed: and he shall
returnm, and shall devise against them that haave forsaken the covenant
of the sanctuary.

The galleys and the Romans... Popilius, and the other Roman ambassadors,
who came in galleys, and obliged him to depart from Egypt.

11:31. And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall defile the
sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the continual sacrifice: and
they shall place there the abomination unto desolation.

They shall place there the abomination, etc... The idol of Jupiter
Olympius, which Antiochus ordered to be set up in the sanctuary of the
temple: which is here called the sanctuary of strength, from the
Almighty that was worshipped there.

11:32. And such as deal wickedly against the covenant shall deceitfully
dissemble: but the people that know their God shall prevail and succeed.

11:33. And they that are learned among the people shall teach many: and
they shall fall by the sword, and by fire, and by captivity, and by
spoil for many days.

11:34. And when they shall have fallen, they shall be relieved with a
small help: and many shall be joined to them deceitfully.

11:35. And some of thelearned shall fall, that they may be tried, and
may be chosen, and made white, even to the appointed time: because yet
there shall be anoth