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Daniel 11:28 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Then he will return into his land with great wealth. His heart will be against the holy covenant. He will take action and return to his own land. "
Daniel 11:28
Verse in Context
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26 Yes, those who eat of his delicacies will destroy him, and his army will be swept away. Many will fall down slain.
27 As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.
28 Then he will return into his land with great wealth. His heart will be against the holy covenant. He will take action and return to his own land.
29 “He will return at the appointed time and come into the south; but it won’t be in the latter time as it was in the former.
30 For ships of Kittim will come against him. Therefore he will be grieved, and will return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and will take action. He will even return, and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant.
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Daniel 11:1
"“As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him."
Daniel 11:2
"“Now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings will stand up in Persia. The fourth will be far richer than all of them. When he has grown strong through his riches, he will stir up all against the realm of Greece."
Daniel 11:3
"A mighty king will stand up who will rule with great dominion, and do according to his will."
Daniel 11:4
"When he stands up, his kingdom will be broken, and will be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these."
Daniel 11:5
"“The king of the south will be strong. One of his princes will become stronger than him and have dominion. His dominion will be a great dominion."
Daniel 11:6
"At the end of years they will join themselves together. The daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement, but she will not retain the strength of her arm. He will also not stand, nor will his arm; but she will be given up, with those who brought her and he who became her father, and he who strengthened her in those times."
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