Daniel 11:22

King James Version

And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A flood of forces will be swept away before him; they will be broken, as well as the covenant prince.

Hebrew Names Version
The overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed from before him, and shall be broken; yes, also the prince of the covenant.

English Standard Version
Armies shall be utterly swept away before him and broken, even the prince of the covenant.

New American Standard Bible
"And the overflowing forces will be flooded away from him and smashed, and also the prince of the covenant.

New Century Version
He will sweep away in defeat large and powerful armies and even a prince who made an agreement.

Amplified Bible
"The overwhelming forces [of the invading armies of Egypt] will be flooded away before him and smashed; and also the prince of the covenant [will be smashed].

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the armes shall be ouerthrowen with a flood before him, and shall be broken: and also the prince of the couenant.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The overflowing forces will be flooded away before him and shattered, and also the prince of the covenant.

Berean Standard Bible
Then a flood of forces will be swept away before him and destroyed, along with a prince of the covenant.

Contemporary English Version
Then he will destroy armies and remove God's chosen high priest.

Complete Jewish Bible
Large armies will be broken and swept away before him, as well as the prince of the covenant.

Darby Translation
And the overflowing forces shall be overflowed from before him, and shall be broken: yea, also the prince of the covenant.

Easy-to-Read Version
He will defeat large and powerful armies. He will even defeat the leader with the agreement.

George Lamsa Translation
And the fortified cities in the provinces shall be plundered, and shall scatter before him even the high priests of the covenant.

Good News Translation
Anyone who opposes him, even God's High Priest, will be swept away and wiped out.

Lexham English Bible
And before him mighty military forces will be utterly swept away, and they will be broken, and also the leader of the covenant.

Literal Translation
And the forces of the overflow shall be swept from before his face, and they will be shattered, and also the ruler of a covenant.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
he shal fight agaynst the armes of the mightie (& destroye them,) yee & agaynst the prynce of the couenaunt.

American Standard Version
And the overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.

Bible in Basic English
And his forces will be completely taken away from before him and broken; and even the ruler of the agreement will have the same fate.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the arms of the flood shall be swept away from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.

King James Version (1611)
And with the armes of a flood shall they bee ouerflowen from before him, and shall be broken: yea also the prince of the couenant.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the armes shalbe ouerflowed with a flud before hym, and shalbe broken, & also the prince of the couenaunt.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the arms of him that overflows shall be washed away as with a flood from before him, and shall be broken, and so shall be the head of the covenant.

English Revised Version
And with the arms of a flood shall they be swept away from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.

World English Bible
The overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed from before him, and shall be broken; yes, also the prince of the covenant.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the armes of the fiytere schulen be ouercomun of his face, and schulen be al to-brokun, ferthermore and the duyk of boond of pees.

Update Bible Version
And the flooding forces shall be flooded away from before him, and shall be broken; and also the leader of the covenant.

Webster's Bible Translation
And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflowed from before him, and shall be broken; yes, also the prince of the covenant.

New English Translation
Armies will be suddenly swept away in defeat before him; both they and a covenant leader will be destroyed.

New King James Version
With the force [fn] of a flood they shall be swept away from before him and be broken, and also the prince of the covenant.

New Living Translation
Before him great armies will be swept away, including a covenant prince.

New Life Bible
Armies will be driven away and destroyed in front of him, and also the ruler of the agreement.

New Revised Standard
Armies shall be utterly swept away and broken before him, and the prince of the covenant as well.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, the arms of an overflowing flood, will sweep all before him, and they shall be broken in pieces, - moreover also, the prince of a covenant;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the arms of the fighter shall be overcome before his face, and shall be broken: yea, also the prince of the covenant.

Revised Standard Version
Armies shall be utterly swept away before him and broken, and the prince of the covenant also.

Young's Literal Translation
And the arms of the flood are overflowed from before him, and are broken; and also the leader of the covenant.

Contextual Overview

²¹ And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. ²² And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant. ²³ And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people. ²⁴ He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time. ²⁵ And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him. ²⁶ Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain. ²⁷ And both of these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed. ²⁸ Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land. ²⁹ At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter. ³⁰ For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

with: Daniel 11:10, Daniel 9:26, Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8, Amos 8:8, Amos 9:5, Nahum 1:8, Revelation 12:15, Revelation 12:16

also: Daniel 8:10, Daniel 8:11, Daniel 8:25

Reciprocal: Isaiah 28:15 - when Isaiah 28:17 - and the waters Jeremiah 46:6 - stumble Jeremiah 46:7 - as a flood Jeremiah 47:2 - waters Daniel 11:26 - overflow Daniel 11:28 - the holy Daniel 11:40 - overflow

Cross-References

Joshua 24:2
And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken,.... That is, by the help of the forces of Eumenes and Attalus, which were like an inundation of water, the party that were on the side of Heliodorus the usurper were bore down, crushed, and destroyed; and thereby Antiochus had a peaceable settlement in the kingdom: or, "the arms of a flood shall be overflowed from before him, and be broken" r; either the arms of Heliodorus, the forces he had got together; or the armies of the Egyptians, which, like an overflowing flood, had used to run over Judea, Coelesyria, Phoenicia, and other places, and carry all before them, now should be overflowed, and bore down themselves; of which see more on Daniel 11:25:

yea, also the prince of the covenant; which some understand of Judas Maccabaeus, as Jerome and Jacchiades; others more probably of Onias the high priest, whom Antiochus deposed in the first year of his reign, and sold the priesthood to Jason his younger brother for four hundred and forty talents of silver; and who also promised to give him one hundred and fifty more for a license to erect a place of exercise for the training up of youth, according to the fashion of the Greeks; which Antiochus greedily embraced, the public treasury being empty through the large tribute paid to the Romans the last twelve years; in the Apocrypha:

"7 But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, called Epiphanes, took the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias laboured underhand to be high priest, 8 Promising unto the king by intercession three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and of another revenue eighty talents: 9 Beside this, he promised to assign an hundred and fifty more, if he might have licence to set him up a place for exercise, and for the training up of youth in the fashions of the heathen, and to write them of Jerusalem by the name of Antiochians. 34 Wherefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus apart, prayed, him to get Onias into his hands; who being persuaded thereunto, and coming to Onias in deceit, gave him his right hand with oaths; and though he were suspected by him, yet persuaded he him to come forth of the sanctuary: whom forthwith he shut up without regard of justice. 35 For the which cause not only the Jews, but many also of other nations, took great indignation, and were much grieved for the unjust murder of the man.'' (2 Maccabees 4)

Others think Seleucus Philopator his brother is meant, which is not probable, his death being before described; rather Demetrius his nephew, with whom he covenanted to hold the kingdom for him, or through whom the covenant and peace with the Romans was continued so long, he being an hostage at Rome; though others are of opinion that Trypho, a peer of the realm of Egypt, is designed, who was the principal person concerned in a covenant made between Antiochus and Ptolemy Philometor king of Egypt; though it is more likely that Ptolemy himself is the person intended.

r וזרעות השטף ישטפו "et brachia inundationis inundabantur", Cocceius, Michaelis "brachia inundantia", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And with the arms of a flood - The refercnce here is to some mighty invasion of some country by Antiochus, which would sweep everything before him. There seems to be some confusion of metaphor in the phrase, “the arms of a flood.” The idea in the mind of the writer appears to have been this: He saw an invasion of some country by hosts of men under the command of Antiochus. This it was not unnatural to compare with an “inundation of waters” spreading over a land. See Isaiah 8:8. Nor was it altogether unnatural to speak of an inundation as having “arms” extending far and near; sweeping everything to itself, or carrying it away. Thus we speak of an arm of the sea, an arm of a river, etc. In this manner the inundation - the invasion - seemed to spread itself out like waters, sweeping all away.

Shall they be overflown, from before him - The prophet does not specify “who” they would be that would thus be overthrown. Some have supposed that the reference is to the Hebrews, but the more correct interpretation is what refers it to Egypt, See the notes at Daniel 11:25. As a matter of fact, the forces of Heliodorus, the forces of the Hebrews, and the forces of the Egyptians, were alike broken and scattered before him. The eye of the prophet, however, seems rather here to be on the invasion of Egypt, which was one of the earliest and most prominent acts of Antiochus, and into the history of which the prophet goes most into detail.

Yea, also the prince of the covenant - He also shall be broken and overcome. There has been some diversity of opinion as to who is meant by “the prince of the covenant” here. Many suppose that it is the high priest of the Jews, as being the chief prince or ruler under the “covenant” which God made with them, or among the “covenant” people. But this appellation is not elsewhere given to the Jewish high priest, nor is it such as could with much propriety be applied to him. The reference is rather to the king of Egypt, with whom a covenant or compact had been made by Antiochus the Great, and who was supposed to be united, therefore, to the Syrians by a solemn treaty. See Lengerke, in loc. So Elliott, “Rev.” iv. 133.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 22. And with the arms of a flood — The arms which were overflown before him were his competitors for the crown. They were vanquished by the forces of Eumenes and Attalus; and were dissipated by the arrival of Antiochus from Athens, whose presence disconcerted all their measures.

The prince of the covenant — This was Onias, the high priest, whom he removed, and put Jason in his place, who had given him a great sum of money; and then put wicked Menelaus in his room, who had offered him a larger sum. Thus he acted deceitfully in the league made with Jason.