Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
plant . . . between the seas--the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean.
tabernacles of . . . palace--his palace-like military tents, such as Oriental princes travel with. See on Daniel 11:40, as to the time of Antiochus' attack on Judea, and his subsequent "end" at Tabes, which was caused by chagrin both at hearing that his forces under Lysias were overcome by the Jews, and at the failure of his expedition against the temple of Elymais (2 Maccabees 9:5).
holy mountain--Jerusalem and Mount Zion. The desolation of the sanctuary by Antiochus, and also the desecration of the consecrated ground round Jerusalem by the idolatrous Roman ensigns, as also by the Mohammedan mosque, and, finally, by the last Antichrist, are referred to. So the last Antichrist is to sit upon "the mount of the congregation" (Isaiah 14:13), but "shall be brought down to hell" (compare Note, see on Daniel 7:26; 2 Thessalonians 2:8).
Compare Daniel 12:4, Daniel 12:13; as Daniel 12:6-7 refer to Daniel 7:25, that is, to the time of Antichrist, so the subsequent Daniel 12:8-12 treat of the time of Antiochus (compare Daniel 12:11 with Daniel 11:31), thus putting together in one summary view the two great periods of distress. The political resurrection of the Jews under the Maccabees is the starting-point of transition to the literal resurrection about to follow the destruction of Antichrist by Christ's coming in glory. The language passes here from the nearer to the more remote event, to which alone it is fully applicable.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 49:24
Isaiah 51:16
Ezekiel 37:28
Daniel 8:9
Daniel 11:16
Daniel 11:23
Daniel 11:40
2 Thessalonians 2:4
2 Thessalonians 2:7
2 Thessalonians 2:8
Revelation 19:20
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