Daniel 11:34

King James Version

Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When they fall, they will be helped by some, but many others will join them insincerely.

Hebrew Names Version
Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves to them with flatteries.

English Standard Version
When they stumble, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery,

New American Standard Bible
"Now when they fall they will be granted a little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy.

New Century Version
When the wise ones are suffering, they will get a little help, but many who join the wise ones will not help them in their time of need.

Amplified Bible
"Now when they fall they will receive a little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a litle helpe: but many shall cleaue vnto them fainedly.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now when they fall they will be granted a little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy.

Berean Standard Bible
Now when they fall, they will be granted a little help, but many will join them insincerely.

Contemporary English Version
They will receive only a little help in their time of trouble, and many of their followers will be treacherous.

Complete Jewish Bible
When they stumble, they will receive a little help, although many who join them will be insincere.

Darby Translation
And when they fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

Easy-to-Read Version
When those wise people are punished, they will receive some help, but many people who join them will be hypocrites.

George Lamsa Translation
Now when they fall, they shall receive a little help; but many other hardships shall be added to them by means of deception.

Good News Translation
While the killing is going on, God's people will receive a little help, even though many who join them will do so for selfish reasons.

Lexham English Bible
And when they fall they will receive little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy.

Literal Translation
And when they shall stumble, they will be helped with a little help. But many will join them with hypocrisy.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now whe they fall, they shalbe set vp with a litle helpe: but many shal cleue vnto them faynedly.

American Standard Version
Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves unto them with flatteries.

Bible in Basic English
Now at the time of their downfall they will have a little help, but numbers will be joined to them in the town, and in their separate heritages.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Now when they shall stumble, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves unto them with blandishments.

King James Version (1611)
Now when they shall fall, they shalbe holpen with a litle help: but many shall cleaue to them with flatteries.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe when they shall fall, they shalbe holpen with a litle helpe, but many shall cleaue vnto them faynedly.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And when they are weak they shall be helped with a little help: but many shall attach themselves to them with treachery.

English Revised Version
Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall join themselves unto them with flatteries.

World English Bible
Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves to them with flatteries.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne thei han feld doun, thei schulen be reisid bi a litil help; and ful many men schulen be applied to hym gilefuli.

Update Bible Version
Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves to them with flatteries.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now when they shall fall, they shall be assisted with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

New English Translation
When they stumble, they will be granted some help. But many will unite with them deceitfully.

New King James Version
Now when they fall, they shall be aided with a little help; but many shall join with them by intrigue.

New Living Translation
During these persecutions, little help will arrive, and many who join them will not be sincere.

New Life Bible
When they fall, they will receive a little help. And many will pretend to be their friends.

New Revised Standard
When they fall victim, they shall receive a little help, and many shall join them insincerely.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
but, when they are brought low, they shall be helped with a little help, - and many, will join themselves unto them, by flatteries;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they shall have fallen, they shall be relieved with a small help: and many shall be joined to them deceitfully.

Revised Standard Version
When they fall, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery;

Young's Literal Translation
And in their stumbling, they are helped -- a little help, and joined to them have been many with flatteries.

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

they shall be: Revelation 12:2-6, Revelation 12:13-17, Revelation 13:1-4

cleave: Matthew 7:15, Acts 20:29, Acts 20:30, Romans 16:18, 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, Galatians 2:4, 1 Timothy 4:1, 1 Timothy 4:2, 2 Timothy 3:1-7, 2 Timothy 4:3, Titus 1:11, 2 Peter 2:1-3, 2 Peter 2:18, 2 Peter 2:19, 1 John 2:18, 1 John 2:19, 1 John 4:1, 1 John 4:5, 2 John 1:7, Jude 1:4, Revelation 2:20, Revelation 13:11-14

Reciprocal: Daniel 11:21 - by flatteries Revelation 3:8 - a little

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help,.... When the Jews shall be thus harassed and distressed by Antiochus and his armies, to the ruin of many, by the several sorts of punishments inflicted on them; they should be helped and eased a little by Mattathias, a priest of Modin, and his five sons, commonly called the Maccabees; Porphyry himself interprets this of Mattathias: the help and assistance which he and his sons gave to the Jews was but "little"; if we consider they were persons of a small figure, began with a handful of men, and could do but little, especially at first; and though great exploits were done by them, considering their number and strength, yet they were not able to restore the land to its former glory and liberty; nor did this help of theirs last long, but the enemy returned with great fierceness and cruelty, and sadly afflicted the people of the Jews. Cocceius understands this of the help the Christians had under Constantius Chlorus, and Constantine the great; and so does Sir Isaac Newton, who agrees with him in interpreting this and the preceding verse: he interprets "arms", in Daniel 11:31, of the Romans, and so Jacchiades; and makes this to be the beginning of the fourth kingdom that should "stand", ממנו, "after him"; that is, after Antiochus; so the particle, he observes, is used in Daniel 11:8, and it must be owned this is the sense in which it is sometimes used, of which Noldius l has given instances: and this seems to agree with the thread of history, and introduces the Romans, who must have a place in this prophecy, in a very proper manner; and carries on the account of things, through the times of Christ, his apostles, the first ages of Christianity under persecution, until the rise of antichrist, Daniel 11:36 and throws light upon the text in Matthew 24:15, the language of which seems best to agree with Daniel 11:31, and, if so, must respect something to be done, not in the times of Antiochus, but after the times of Christ.

But many shall cleave to them with flatteries; seeing Mattathias and his sons succeed, some of those, who had been apostates from their religion, or not heartily friends to it, joined them, but not sincerely; pretended to be on their side, and commended their bravery and courage; and being ambitious of honour and fame, took with them, in order to share the glory of their actions; such were Joseph the son of Zachariah, and Azarias, in the Apocrypha:

"56 Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of the garrisons, heard of the valiant acts and warlike deeds which they had done. 57 Wherefore they said, Let us also get us a name, and go fight against the heathen that are round about us.'' (1 Maccabees 5)

and those under whose clothes were found idols, or what belonged to them, at Jamnia, when they were slain, in the Apocrypha:

"Now under the coats of everyone that was slain they found things consecrated to the idols of the Jamnites, which is forbidden the Jews by the law. Then every man saw that this was the cause wherefore they were slain.'' (2 Maccabees 12:40)

and Rhodocus, a soldier of the Jewish army, who betrayed their secrets, in the Apocrypha:

"But Rhodocus, who was in the Jews' host, disclosed the secrets to the enemies; therefore he was sought out, and when they had gotten him, they put him in prison.'' (2 Maccabees 13:21)

Cocceius applies this to antichrist and his followers pretending to be for Christ and his church, but were not.

l Concord. Part. Ebr. p. 557.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help - By small accessions to their forces. The armies of the Maccabees were never “very” numerous; but the idea here is, that when they should be persecuted, there would be accessions to their forces, so that they would be able to prosecute the war. At first the numbers were very few who took up arms, and undertook to defend the institutions of religion, but their numbers increased until they were finally victorious. Those who first banded together, when the calamities came upon the nation, were Mattathias and his few followers, and this is the little help that is here referred to. See 1 Macc. 2.

But many shall cleave to them - As was the case under Judas Maccabeus, when the forces were so far increased as to be able to contend successfully with Antiochus.

With flatteries - Perhaps with flattering hopes of spoil or honor; that is, that they would not unite sincerely with the defenders of the true religion, but would be actuated by prospect of plunder or reward. For the meaning of the word, see the notes at Daniel 11:21. The sense here is not that Judas would flatter them, or would secure their cooperation by flatteries, but that this would be what they would propose to their own minds, and what would influence them. Compare 1 Macc. 5:55-57: “Now what time as Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Galaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais, Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of the garrisons, heard of the valiant acts and warlike deeds which they had done. Wherefore they said, Let us also get us a name, and go fight against the pagan round about us.” Compare 2 Macc. 12:40; 13:21. There can be no doubt that many might join them from these motives. Such an event would be likely to occur anywhere, when one was successful, and where there was a prospect of spoils or of fame in uniting with a victorious leader of an amy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 34. Now when they shall fall — When the storm of the tenth persecution under Diocletian, which lasted ten years, fell upon them, they were sorely oppressed.

They shall be holpen with a little help — By Constantine; who, while he removed all persecution, and promoted the temporal prosperity of the Christian Church, yet added little to its spiritual perfection and strength. For many, now seeing the Christians in prosperity,-

Cleave to them with flatteries. — Became Christians BECAUSE the EMPEROR was such.