the end: Daniel 11:13; Ezekiel 38:8-9
join themselves: Heb. associate themselves
for the king's: After many wars between Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, and Antiochus Theos, king of Syria, they agreed to make peace, on condition that the latter should put away his wife Laodice, and her sons, and marry Berenice, Ptolemy's daughter.
king: Daniel 11:7, Daniel 11:13, Daniel 11:15, Daniel 11:40
an agreement: Heb. rights
retain: Job 38:15; Psalms 10:5; Ezekiel 30:21; Zechariah 11:16
she shall be: Antiochus recalled Laodice, who, fearing another change, caused him to be poisoned, and Berenice and her son to be murdered, and set her son Callinicus on the throne.
he that begat her: or, whom she brought forth
he that strengthened: Her father Ptolemy, who died a few years before.