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FULFILLMENT
PROPHECY GIVEN B. C. 534
prominent, because the King of the North from Syria, and the King of the South, Egypt, were to come in touch with the Jews. The holy land became involved with both. The King of the South was Ptol emy Lagus. One of his princes was Seleucus Nicator. He estab lished a great dominion, which ex tended to the Indus. Here is another gap. This verse takes us to 2S0 b . c . The two who make an alliance are the Kings of the North (Syrian division of the Grecian Empire) and of the South (Egypt). This alliance was ef fected by the . marriage of the daughter of the King of the South, the Egyptian Princess Berenice, daughter of Ptolemy II., to An- tiochus Theos, the King of the North. The agreement was that Antiochus had to divorce his wife and make any child of Berenice his heir in the kingdom. The agreement ended in calamity. When Ptolemy died Antiochus Theos in 247 called back his for mer wife. Berenice and her young son were poisoned and the first wife’s son, Callinicus, was put on the throne as Seleucus II. The one out of her roots (Bere nice, who had been murdered) was her own brother, Ptolemy Euergetes, who avenged her death. He conquered Syria. He dealt against Seleucus II, King of thé North, and slew the wife of An-
princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion ; his dominion shall be a great do minion.” (Verse 5.)
“And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the South shall come to the King of the North to make an agreement; but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.” (Verse 6.)
“But out of a branch of her roots •shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the King of the North, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail.” (Verse 7.)
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