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This thought is expanded and proved in these verses. - Dan 11:13. The king of the north returns to his own land, gathers a host together more numerous than before, and shall then, at the end of the times of years, come again with a more powerful army and with a great train. רְכוּשׁ, that which is acquired, the goods, is the train necessary for the suitable equipment of the army-”the condition to a successful warlike expedition” (Kran.). The definition of time corresponding to the בָּעִתִּים in Dan 11:6 is specially to be observed: שָׁנִים הָעִתִּים לְקֵץ הָעִ (at the end of times, years), in which שָׁנִים is to be interpreted (as יָמִים with שָׁבֻעִים, Dan 10:3-4, and other designations of time) as denoting that the `itiym stretch over years, are times lasting during years. הָעִתִּים, with the definite article, are in prophetic discourse the times determined by God.
Dan 11:14
In those times shall many rise up against the king of the south (עַל עָמַד as Dan 8:20); also עַמְךָ פְרִיצֵי בְּנֵי, the violent people of the nation (of the Jews), shall raise themselves against him. פָרִיצִים .mih ts בְּנֵי are such as belong to the classes of violent men who break through the barriers of the divine law (Eze 18:10). These shall raise themselves חָזֹון לְהַעֲמִיד, to establish the prophecy, i.e., to bring it to an accomplishment. ha`amiyd = qayeem, Eze 13:6, as עָמַד = קוּם in Daniel, and generally in the later Hebrew. Almost all interpreters since Jerome have referred this to Daniel's vision of the oppression under Antiochus Epiphanes, Dan 8:9-14, Dan 11:23. This is so far right, as the apostasy of one party among the Jews from the law of their fathers, and their adoption of heathen customs, contributed to bring about that oppression with which the theocracy was visited by Antiochus Epiphanes; but the limiting of the חָזֹון to those definite prophecies is too narrow. חָזֹון without the article is prophecy in undefined generality, and is to be extended to all the prophecies which threatened the people of Israel with severe chastisements and sufferings on account of their falling away from the law and their apostasy from their God. וְנִכְשָׁלוּ, they shall stumble, fall. “The falling away shall bring to them no gain, but only the sufferings and tribulation prophesied of” (Kliefoth).
Dan 11:15
In this verse, with וְיָבֹא the בֹּוא eht וְיָ יָבֹוא, Dan 11:13, is again assumed, and the consequence of the war announced. סוֹלְלָה שָׁפַךְ, to heap up an entrenchment; cf. Eze 4:2; 2Ki 19:32. מִבְצָרוֹת עִיר, city of fortifications, without the article, also collectively of the fortresses of the kingdom of the south generally. Before such power the army, i.e., the war-strength, of the south shall not maintain its ground; even his chosen people shall not possess strength necessary for this.