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Daniel 11:15

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cast up: Jeremiah 5:10, Jeremiah 6:6, Jeremiah 33:4, Jeremiah 52:4; Ezekiel 17:17

most fenced cities: Heb. city of munitions, After fourteen years, Ptolemy Philopater having been succeeded by Ptolemy Epiphanes, then a minor, Antiochus raised a greater army than before, and having defeated his best troops under Scopas, recovered possession of Caelo-Syria and Palestine, with all their fortified cities.

shall not: Daniel 11:6, Daniel 8:7; Joshua 1:5; Proverbs 21:30-31

his chosen people: Heb. the people of his choices

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