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strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.
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Then said he, Knowest
thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when
I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.
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But I will shew thee that which is noted in
the scripture of truth: and
there is
none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your
prince.
CHAPTER 11
Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede,
even
I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.
2
And
now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth
shall be far richer than
they
all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the
realm of Grecia.
3
And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do
according to his will.
4
And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be
divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion
which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.
5
And the king of the south shall be strong, and
one
of his princes; and he shall be strong above
him, and have dominion; his dominion
shall be
a great dominion.
6
And in the end of years they
shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the
north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand,
nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that
strengthened her in
these
times.
7
But out of a branch of her roots shall
one
stand up in his estate,
which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall
deal against them, and shall prevail:
8
And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their
princes,
and
with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue
more
years than
the king of the north.
9
So the king of the south shall come into
his
kingdom, and shall return into
his own land.
10
But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and
one
shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up,
even
to his fortress.
11
And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth
and fight with him,
even
with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the
multitude shall be given into his hand.
12
And
when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart
shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down
many
ten thousands: but he shall not be strengthened
by
it.
13
For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former,
and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches.
14
And in those
times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall
exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.
15
So the king of the north shall come,
and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand,
neither his chosen people, neither
shall there be any
strength to withstand.
16
But he that cometh
against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand
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