Matthew Poole Commentary - Daniel 11:17 - 11:17

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Daniel 11:17 - 11:17


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He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom; he shall use all the force and fraud he can to master Egypt, and engross it to himself, because Ptolemy was then young, and not able to match him.



And upright ones with him, i.e. many of the religions Jews joined with him, Num_23:10, called righteous in opposition to the rest of his army, which was composed of idolaters, and a profane rabble of rude heathens.



He shall give him the daughter of women, i.e. Antiochus shall give Cleopatra his daughter, who was young, to young Ptolemy, called



the daughter of women for her beauty, and rare parts, which she afterwards discovered; and gave in dowry with her Coelosyria, Phoenice, and Judea, dividing the tribute and revenues between them.



But she shall not stand on his side: as Saul gave Michal to David to be a snare to her husband, to betray him and destroy him, but she stuck to her husband’s interest, and not her father’s.