Daniel 11:39

"But in their place, he will honor the god of fortresses. He will honor a god whom his fathers didn’t know with gold, silver, and with precious stones and pleasant things."

Key Reflection

In Daniel 11:39, the prophecy foresees a ruler who will honor a god associated with strongholds and fortresses, a deity not known to his ancestors. This new god would be worshiped lavishly, adorned with gold, silver, and precious materials, indicating a dramatic shift in religious practices that would have been startling to the original audience accustomed to more traditional forms of worship.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Thus shall he do in, the most strong holds -Margin, “fortresses of munitions.” The reference is to strongly fortified places; to those places which bad been made strong for purposes of defense. The idea is, that he would carry on his purposes against these places, as it were, under the auspices of this strange god. It was a fact, that in his wars Antiochus came into possession of the strong places, or the fortified towns of the nations which he attacked - Jerusalem, Sidon, Peluslum, Memphis - then among the strongest places in the world.

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