John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 11:22
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" F18 וזרעות השטף ישטפו "et brachia inundationis... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Daniel 11:21
And in his estate shall stand up a vile person ,.... Upon his basis or stand, in the same place where Seleucus Philopator stood, succeeded Antiochus Epiphanes his brother, called "vile", being a very immoral man, given to drunkenness, lasciviousness, uncleanness, and unnatural lusts, and a violent persecutor of the church of God. The word signifies "despicable" F16 נבזה "despectus", Pagninus, Montanus; "contemptus", Vatablus, Piscator, Tigurine version. ; he was a vile person, and... read more