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This verse illustrates the last clause of Dan 11:11, i.e., explains more fully how the great multitude of the enemy are given into his hand. The first two clauses of Dan 11:12 stand in correlation to each other, as the change of the time and the absence of the copula before יָרוּם show (the Keri וְרָם proceeds from a misunderstanding). The meaning is this: “As the multitude rises up, so his heart is lifted up.” הֶהָמֹון, with the article, can only be the host of the king of the north mentioned in Dan 11:12. The supposition that the Egyptian army is meant, is the result of the difficulty arising out of the misapprehension of the right relation in which the perfect וְנִשָּׂא (hath lifted up raised) stands to the imperfect יָרוּם. נִשָּׂא as in Isa 33:10 : they raise themselves to the conflict. לֵבָב רוּם, the lifting up of the heart, commonly in the sense of pride; here the increase of courage, but so that pride is not altogether to be excluded. The subject to יָרוּם is the king of the south, to whom the suffix to בְּיָדוֹ, Dan 11:11, points. With excited courage he overthrows myriads, namely, the powerful multitude of the enemies, but he yet does not reach to power, he does not attain to the supremacy over the king of the north and over his kingdom which he is striving after. The Vulgate, without however fully expressing the meaning, has rendered יָעוֹז וְלֹא by sed non praevalebit.