So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And he shall come into the realm of the king of the south, but he shall return into his own land.
WEB
who will invade the realm of the king of the South and then return to his own land.
YLT
`And the king of the south hath come into the kingdom, and turned back unto his own land;
DBT
and [the same] shall come into the realm of the king of the south, but shall return into his own land.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentDaniel — A Hebrew exile at Babylonian and Persian courts sees empires rise and fall, a Son of Man coming with clouds, and seventy weeks locating Messiah in time. The canon's densest apocalyptic text — and its most interpretively contested.
- Author
- Daniel (traditional — Jesus cites ‘Daniel the prophet’ in Matt 24:15); critical scholarship dates composition to the 2nd c. BC Maccabean period (§7.9 — both surfaced)
- Date
- Traditional: 6th c. BC. Critical: c. 165 BC. Site default: traditional; critical view surfaced at depth 2