Daniel 11:22

Daniel 11:22 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
• New International Version (NIV)Then an overwhelming army will be swept away before him; both it and a prince of the covenant will be destroyed.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Armies shall be utterly swept away before him and broken, even the prince of the covenant.
• New King James Version (NKJV)With the force of a flood they shall be swept away from before him and be broken, and also the prince of the covenant.

Context of Daniel 11:22

20“His successor will send out a tax collector to maintain the royal splendor. But after a very brief reign, he will die, though not from anger or in battle. 21“The next to come to power will be a despicable man who is not in line for royal succession. He will slip in when least expected and take over the kingdom by flattery and intrigue. Before him great armies will be swept away, including a covenant prince. 23With deceitful promises, he will make various alliances. He will become strong despite having only a handful of followers. 24Without warning he will enter the richest areas of the land. Then he will distribute among his followers the plunder and wealth of the rich—something his predecessors had never done. He will plot the overthrow of strongholds, but this will last for only a short while.

Daniel 11:22 word by word

וּזְרֹע֥וֹת הַשֶּׁ֛טֶף יִשָּׁטְפ֥וּ מִלְּפָנָ֖יו וְיִשָּׁבֵ֑רוּ וְגַ֖ם נְגִ֥יד בְּרִֽית׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And with the armsזְרוֹעַzerôa‛ zerôa‛ zerô‛âh zerô‛âh · armH2220
• of a floodשֶׁ֫טֶףsheţeph shêţeph · floodH7858
• shall they be overflownשָׁטַףshâţaph · to overflowH7857
• from beforeפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440
• him, and shall be brokenשָׁבַרshâbar · to breakH7665
• yea, also the princeנָגִידnâgîyd nâgid · leaderH5057
• of the covenantבְּרִיתberîyth · covenantH1285

Cross-references for Daniel 11:22

• Daniel 11:10However, the sons of the king of the north will assemble a mighty army that will advance like a flood and carry the battle as far as the enemy’s fortress.
• Daniel 9:26“After this period of sixty-two sets of seven, the Anointed One will be killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing, and a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple. The end will come with a flood, and war and its miseries are decreed from that time to the very end.
• Isaiah 8:7Therefore, the Lord will overwhelm them with a mighty flood from the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria and all his glory. This flood will overflow all its channels
• Amos 8:8The earth will tremble for your deeds, and everyone will mourn. The ground will rise like the Nile River at floodtime; it will heave up, then sink again.
• Amos 9:5The Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, touches the land and it melts, and all its people mourn. The ground rises like the Nile River at floodtime, and then it sinks again.
• Nahum 1:8But he will sweep away his enemies in an overwhelming flood. He will pursue his foes into the darkness of night.
• Revelation 12:15Then the dragon tried to drown the woman with a flood of water that flowed from his mouth.
• Daniel 8:10Its power reached to the heavens, where it attacked the heavenly army, throwing some of the heavenly beings and some of the stars to the ground and trampling them.

Commentaries on Daniel 11:22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22And with the arms of a flood - The arms which were overflown before him were his competitors for the crown. They were vanquished by the forces of Eumenes and Attalus; and were dissipated by the arrival of Antiochus from Athens, whose presence disconcerted all their measures. The prince of the covenant - This was Onias, the high priest, whom he removed, and put Jason in his place, who had given him a great sum of money; and then put wicked Menelaus in his…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22And with the arms of a flood - The refercnce here is to some mighty invasion of some country by Antiochus, which would sweep everything before him. There seems to be some confusion of metaphor in the phrase, “the arms of a flood.” The idea in the mind of the writer appears to have been this: He saw an invasion of some country by hosts of men under the command of Antiochus. This it was not unnatural to compare with an “inundation of waters” spreading over…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22The prince of the covenant was Onias III, the high priest (see study notes on Daniel 9:25–26). Antiochus IV removed him in 175 BC and replaced him with his brother Jason (2 Maccabees 4:7–10). In 171 BC, Menelaus murdered Onias and became high priest from 171 to 162 BC. Menelaus supported Antiochus IV’s plan to spread Greek culture (see study note on Daniel 9:27).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. shall they be overflown ... before him--Antiochus Epiphanes shall invade Egypt with overwhelming forces. prince of the covenant--Ptolemy Philometer, the son of Cleopatra, Antiochus' sister, who was joined in covenant with him. Ptolemy's guardians, while he was a boy, sought to recover from Epiphanes Coelo-Syria and Palestine, which had been promised by Antiochus the Great as Cleopatra's dowry in marrying Ptolemy Epiphanes. Hence arose the war…Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Antiochus
• Forecast
• Obtain
• Push
• Seal
• Alexandria
• Captain
• Covenant, in the Old Testament
• Daniel, Book of
• Flood

Commentaries on Daniel 11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings