The Rise of the Vile Person (Antiochus IV)

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And in his place shall stand up a contemptible person, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in time of security, and shall obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

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And the overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed 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.

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In time of security shall he come 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 prey, and spoil, and substance: yea, he shall devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time.

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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 war in battle with an exceeding great and mighty army; but he shall not stand; for they shall devise devices against him.

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Yea, they that eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow; and many shall fall down slain.

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And as for both these kings, their 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.

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Then shall he return into his land with great substance; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do his pleasure, and return to his own land.

29

At the time appointed he shall return, and come into the south; but it shall not be in the latter time as it was in the former.

30

For ships of Kittim shall come against him; therefore he shall be grieved, and shall return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and shall do his pleasure: he shall even return, and have regard unto them that forsake the holy covenant.

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