8 And he shall also carry their gods captive to Egypt, with their1 princes and their precious articles of silver and gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the North.
9 “Also thekingoftheNorth shall come to the kingdom of the king of the South, but shall return to his own land.
10 However his sons shall stir up strife, and assemble a multitude of great forces; and one shall certainly come aand overwhelm and pass through; then he shall return bto his fortress and stir up strife.
11 “And the king of the South shall be amoved with rage, and go out and fight with him, with the king of the North, who shall muster a great multitude; but the bmultitude shall be given into the hand of his enemy.
12 When he has taken away the multitude, his heart will be1 lifted up; and he will cast down tens of thousands, but he will not prevail.
13 For the king of the North will return and muster a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come at the end of some years with a great army and much equipment.
14 “Now in those times many shall rise up against the king of the South. Also,1 violent men of your people shall exalt themselves2 in fulfillment of the vision, but they shall afall.
15 So the king of the North shall come and abuild a siege mound, and take a fortified city; and the1 forces of the South shall not withstand him. Even his choice troops shallhave no strength to resist.
16 But he who comes against him ashall do according to his own will, and bno one shall stand against him. He shall stand in the Glorious Land with destruction in his1 power.
17 “He shall also aset his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and1 upright ones with him; thus shall he do. And he shall give him the daughter of women to destroy it; but she shall not stand withhim,bor be for him.
18 After this he shall turn his face to the coastlands, and shall take many. But a ruler shall bring the reproach against them to an end; and with the reproach removed, he shall turn back on him.
19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fortress of his own land; but he shall astumble and fall, band not be found.
20 “There shall arise in his place one who imposes taxes on the glorious kingdom; but within a few days he shall be destroyed, but not in anger or in battle.
21 And in his place ashall arise a vile person, to whom they will not give the honor of royalty; but he shall come in peaceably, and seize the kingdom by intrigue.
But his sons - He means the sons of the king of the north, shall be incensed with the deeds of Ptolemaeus Euergetes, and his son Ptolemaeus Philopator. One shall come - Antiochus the great, shall pass through Syria and recover what the king of Egypt took from his father. Even to his fortress - To Raphia, which was a strong fortress at the entrance of Egypt.
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