Daniel 11:14

11:14 “In those times many will oppose ¹  the king of the south. ²  Those who are violent ³  among your own people will rise up in confirmation of ⁴  the vision, but they will falter.

Daniel 11:41

11:41 Then he will enter the beautiful land. ⁵  Many ⁶  will fall, but these will escape: ⁷  Edom, Moab, and the Ammonite leadership.

Daniel 11:44

11:44 But reports will trouble him from the east and north, and he will set out in a tremendous rage to destroy and wipe out many.

Daniel 12:2

12:2 Many of those who sleep

in the dusty ground will awake –

some to everlasting life,

and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence. ⁸ 

[11:14]  ¹ tn Heb “stand against.”

[11:14]  ² sn This was Ptolemy V Epiphanes (ca. 203-181 B.C.).

[11:14]  ³ tn Heb “sons of violence.” “Son(s) is sometimes used idiomatically in Hebrew to indicate that someone is characterized by a certain quality. So the expression “sons of violence” means that these individuals will be characterized by violent deeds.

[11:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “to cause to stand.”

[11:41]  ⁵ sn The beautiful land is a cryptic reference to the land of Israel.

[11:41]  ⁶ tn This can be understood as “many people” (cf. NRSV) or “many countries” (cf. NASB, NIV, NLT).

[11:41]  ⁷ tn Heb “be delivered from his hand.”

[12:2]  ⁸ sn This verse is the only undisputed reference to a literal resurrection found in the Hebrew Bible.