There were no canonical books written during this period, but the apocryphal books of 1 and 2 Maccabees record the history of the time period. The time predicted in Daniel 11 took place during what is known as the Intertestamental Period-the roughly 400 years between the close of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New. In the chapters leading up to Daniel 11, God reveals that Israel will be restored however, He also tells Daniel of a time of great trouble for Israel. Syria is to the north of Israel, so the king in Syria is the “king of the North.” Egypt is to the south of Israel, so the series of Egyptian kings of the Ptolemaic dynasty is the “ king of the South” in this passage. The “king of the North” mentioned in Daniel 11 is actually a series of Greek kings in Syria of the Seleucid dynasty.
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