Daniel's Rise and Fall of Empires

Daniel's Rise and Fall of Empires

Kings of the South and the North

Daniel 11:19 "Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found."

Then he shall... This refers to Antiochus III the Great turning back to his own fort in Antioch. He was obliged to raise 15,000 talents for Rome, to pay for the war. He marched into his eastern provinces to exact the unpaid taxes and perished in a war in Luristan, 187 B.C.

Antiochus III returned from defeat to his own land compelled by Rome to relinquish all his territory west of the Taurus and to repay the costs of his war. He was likely killed by defenders of a Persian temple he tried to plunder at night (to get money to pay reparations required by Rome).

Antiochus III the Great had carried on the most vigorous military campaigns of any of Alexander’s successors, but his dream of reuniting Alexander’s empire under his authority was never realized.