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Daniel 11:31 Explained in Context
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Verse 31. 31And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
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Quick Meaning
Sanctuary profanation and the desolating abomination strongly evoke Antiochus IV's coercion without authorizing retaliatory religious violence.
Read It With
- Daniel 11:29–35
Read Daniel 11:31 with 11:29–35. Sanctuary profanation and the desolating abomination strongly evoke Antiochus IV's coercion without authorizing retaliatory religious violence. The complete unit establishes this movement: A failed second Egyptian campaign turns toward sanctuary profanation, stopped offering, desolating abomination, corrupt flattery, faithful action, and refining suffering.
Why This Verse Appears Here
11:21-28 completes “A Contemptible King Gains Power by Intrigue”; the text now turns to “Covenant Attack and Suffering Teachers.” Its final verse prepares “The King's Self-Exaltation” in 11:36-39. Within that movement: Sanctuary profanation and the desolating abomination strongly evoke Antiochus IV's coercion without authorizing retaliatory religious violence.
Follow the Context
- A failed second Egyptian campaign turns toward sanctuary profanation, stopped offering, desolating abomination, corrupt flattery, faithful action, and refining suffering.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and…”
In plain language: Sanctuary profanation and the desolating abomination strongly evoke Antiochus IV's coercion without authorizing retaliatory religious violence.
A failed second Egyptian campaign turns toward sanctuary profanation, stopped offering, desolating abomination, corrupt flattery, faithful action, and refining suffering. Sanctuary profanation and the desolating abomination strongly evoke Antiochus IV's coercion without authorizing retaliatory religious violence.
Why it matters: This wording carries a material lexical, historical, theological, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
Daniel 11:31 does not stand alone from Daniel 11:29–35. The abomination does not justify violence against another religion. Its verse-specific role is: Sanctuary profanation and the desolating abomination strongly evoke Antiochus IV's coercion without authorizing retaliatory religious violence.
What Remains True
Intrigue, militarized ambition, coerced worship, and flattery damage communities, while truthful teaching can endure without controlling outcomes. Daniel 11:29-35 keeps that truth tied to this claim: A failed second Egyptian campaign turns toward sanctuary profanation, stopped offering, desolating abomination, corrupt flattery, faithful action, and refining suffering. In this unit: Sanctuary profanation and the desolating abomination strongly evoke Antiochus IV's coercion without authorizing retaliatory religious violence.
How It Can Shape Life
- Document coercion precisely, support teachers and worshipers under pressure, and refuse prophecy charts that turn current populations into ancient enemies. In Daniel 11:29-35, respond specifically to this movement: A failed second Egyptian campaign turns toward sanctuary profanation, stopped offering, desolating abomination, corrupt flattery, faithful action, and refining suffering. For Daniel 11:31 specifically, keep this reviewed contribution in view: Sanctuary profanation and the desolating abomination strongly evoke Antiochus IV's coercion without authorizing retaliatory religious violence. Read it inside 11:29–35; do not convert its wording into an unsupported modern identification.
Teach It Back
Explain Daniel 11:31's role in 11:29–35. Name the ancient setting, quote or paraphrase “And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and…”, state one material uncertainty, and name one conclusion the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Daniel 11:29-35 — Covenant Attack and Suffering TeachersSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Daniel 11:31 must be read with this unit-level uncertainty: Exact king identifications, campaign details, verse 14's violent ones, covenant language, the referent of every pronoun, start of a possible eschatological shift, and verses 40-45 are disputed. Traditional predictive readings and critical ex eventu reconstruction should each be labeled.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Daniel 11:29-35, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew aramaic text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Daniel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew-Aramaic wording, morphology, language boundary, names, repeated roots, clauses, and lexical controls.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Dan.xml, 11:29-35; Hebrew 1:1–2:4a and 8:1–12:13, Aramaic 2:4b–7:28
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Daniel with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level Hebrew-Aramaic, textual, historical, translation, chronology, angelic-language, and duration notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Daniel PDF, printed pp. 1665–1668, translation and translator notes on 11:29-35
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