Daniel 11:34

34. With a little help At the beginning of the Maccabean uprising there were some surprising successes, but when the later defeats and severe sufferings came it was found that numbers who in the first flush of excitement had joined these heroes could not be depended on. (Compare 1Ma 6:21 ; 1Ma 6:27 .)

Flatteries Dissimulations. (Compare Daniel 11:21.) Bevan translates, “treachery” or “guile” (Daniel 11:21). The very Hebrew word used here sounds like the slippery and untrustworthy “clack-clack” of these pseudo-patriots. They could talk, but when it came to action, they would not even furnish “a little help.” The adherents who joined the army through policy, not principle, were too ready to make friends with either party which seemed at the time likely to win.