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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Daniel 11:44 - 11:44
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tidings out of the east and out of the north - Artaxias, king of Armenia, his vassal, had revolted in the north, and Arsaces, leader of the Parthians, in the east (1 Maccabees 3:10, etc., 1 Maccabees 3:37; Tacitus, Histories, 5.8). In 147 b.c. Antiochus went on the expedition against them, on the return from which he died.
great fury - at the Jews, on account of their successes under Judas Maccabeus, whence he desired to replenish his treasury with means to prosecute the war with them; also at Artaxias and Arsaces, and their respective followers. De Burgh makes the “tidings” which rouse his fury, to be concerning the Jews’ restoration; such may be the antitypical reference.