Daniel 11:18

After he turns his face unto the isles, and shall take many, a magistrate shall cause his reproach to cease for him except that his reproach shall return to him.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.

In Context

17He shall also set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and an agreement is with him; and he shall make it; and he shall give him the daughter of women to destroy it, but she shall not stand, neither be for him.

19Then he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he shall stumble and fall, and will not be found.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:4And the Bnei Yavan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

Esther 10:1And HaMelech Achashverosh laid a tribute upon the land, even to its distant shores.

Jeremiah 2:10For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and look; 1 and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, 1 and see if there has ever been anything like this. 1

Ezekiel 27:6Of the oaks of Bashan 1 have they made thine oars; 1 thy hull of pines inlaid with ivory, 1 they made from that brought out of the isles of Kittim (Cyprus). 1

Zephaniah 2:11Hashem will be terrible unto them; 1 for He will reduce to nothing all the elohei ha'aretz (g-ds of the land); 1 and men shall worship Hashem, everyone from his place, 1 even all the coasts and islands of the Goyim. 1

Matthew Henry on Daniel 11:6-21

The Affairs of Egypt and Syria; The Reign of Antiochus Magnus; The Fall of Antiochus Magnus. ( b. c. 534.) 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… Read the whole commentary →

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