Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
carry . . . into Egypt their gods, etc.—Ptolemy, on hearing of a sedition in Egypt, returned with forty thousand talents of silver, precious vessels, and twenty-four hundred images, including Egyptian idols, which Cambyses had carried from Egypt into Persia. The idolatrous Egyptians were so gratified, that they named him Euergetes, or "benefactor."
continue more years—Ptolemy survived Seleucus four years, reigning in all forty-six years. MAURER translates, "Then he for several years shall desist from (contending with) the king of the north" (compare Daniel 11:9).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Daniel 11:8:
Isaiah 46:1
Daniel 11:5
Daniel 11:6
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