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Daniel 11:11
And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand. (Daniel 11:11)
Given into his hand.
The Battle of Raphia (217 B.C.), between Antiochus III and Ptolemy IV, resulted in a stinging defeat for the former, who is reported to have lost 10,000 infantry and 300 cavalry, plus 4,000 prisoners.
A great multitude.
 Polybius, the leading ancient historian for this period, states that Antiochus’ army numbered 62,000 infantry, 6,000 cavalry, and 102 elephants (Histories v. 79). Ptolemy’s troops seem to have been of about the same number. Compare the reference to “ten thousands” in v. 12.
He.
The antecedents of the various pronouns in this verse become clearer when it is recognized that the passage is in the form of a Hebrew inverted parallelism in which the first and fourth elements, and the second and third, are in parallel. Thus in this verse the references are as follows: King of the south, king of the north, he (king of the north), his (king of the south). See Vol. III, p. 27.
Moved with choler.
 For the meaning of the expression see on ch. 8:7. In 217 B.C., Ptolemy IV met Antiochus at Raphia near the Palestine-Egyptian border.