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href="../daniel/11-33.htm" title="Daniel 11:33">◄</a> Daniel 11:34 <a href="../daniel/11-35.htm" title="Daniel 11:35">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/daniel/11.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/daniel/11.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/daniel/11.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/daniel/11.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/daniel/11.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/daniel/11.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/daniel/11.htm" title="Darby's 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(See last Note). These will not be entirely without help, but there will be some small assistance given them. It will be small, either compared with their present needs, or contrasted with the great help which will be given them when the tribulation attains its greatest severity. In the Maccabee persecutions help was given to the sufferers by Judas and his brethren (<a href="http://apocrypha.org/1_maccabees/3-11.htm" title="Which thing when Judas perceived, he went forth to meet him, and so he smote him, and slew him: many also fell down slain, but the rest fled.">1 Maccabees 3:11</a>, &c., <a href="http://apocrypha.org/1_maccabees/4-14.htm" title="So they joined battle, and the heathen being discomfited fled into the plain.">1 Maccabees 4:14</a>, &c.). This prevented the faithful from disappearing entirely.<p><span class= "bld">Many shall cleave. . . .</span>—Dissimulation will cause some to declare themselves upon the side of “those that understand.” This is a feature which will be noticed in religious persecutions; according as one party or the other gains in power, as its prospects brighten, it gains fresh adherents. This held true in the days of Antiochus. (See <a href="http://apocrypha.org/1_maccabees/6-21.htm" title="Howbeit certain of them that were besieged got forth, unto whom some ungodly men of Israel joined themselves:">1 Maccabees 6:21</a>, &c., 9:23.)<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/daniel/11.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/daniel/11-34.htm" title="Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help: but many shall join to them with flatteries.">Daniel 11:34</a></span>. <span class="ital">Now when they shall fall — </span>When they shall lie quite overcome and oppressed with these great miseries; <span class="ital">they shall be holpen with a little help — </span>This was fulfilled by Mattathias and his five sons, who, in the height of their misery, stood up with most wonderful zeal and courage, to oppose these cruelties of Antiochus by force of arms; and several times overthrew, with great slaughter, Antiochus’s parties who were employed in harassing Judea. <span class="ital">But many shall cleave to them with flatteries — </span>That is, shall be pretended friends only. Such were Joseph and Azarias, who engaged in the common cause out of ambition and a desire of fame, <a href="http://apocrypha.org/1_maccabees/5-56.htm" title="Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of the garrisons, heard of the valiant acts and warlike deeds which they had done.">1Ma 5:56</a>; <a href="http://apocrypha.org/1_maccabees/5-62.htm" title="Moreover these men came not of the seed of those, by whose hand deliverance was given unto Israel.">1Ma 5:62</a>. Such were they who, after their death, were found with idols consecrated under their clothes, <a href="http://apocrypha.org/2_maccabees/12-40.htm" title="Now under the coats of every one that was slain they found things consecrated to the idols of the Jamnites, which is forbidden the Jews by the law. Then every man saw that this was the cause wherefore they were slain.">2Ma 12:40</a>. Such was Rhodocus, who disclosed their secrets to the enemy, chap. <a href="http://apocrypha.org/2_maccabees/13-21.htm" title="But Rhodocus, who was in the Jews' host, disclosed the secrets to the enemies; therefore he was sought out, and when they had gotten him, they put him in prison.">2Ma 13:21</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/daniel/11.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>11:31-45 The remainder of this prophecy is very difficult, and commentators differ much respecting it. From Antiochus the account seems to pass to antichrist. Reference seems to be made to the Roman empire, the fourth monarchy, in its pagan, early Christian, and papal states. The end of the Lord's anger against his people approaches, as well as the end of his patience towards his enemies. If we would escape the ruin of the infidel, the idolater, the superstitious and cruel persecutor, as well as that of the profane, let us make the oracles of God our standard of truth and of duty, the foundation of our hope, and the light of our paths through this dark world, to the glorious inheritance above.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/daniel/11.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help - By small accessions to their forces. The armies of the Maccabees were never "very" numerous; but the idea here is, that when they should be persecuted, there would be accessions to their forces, so that they would be able to prosecute the war. At first the numbers were very few who took up arms, and undertook to defend the institutions of religion, but their numbers increased until they were finally victorious. Those who first banded together, when the calamities came upon the nation, were Mattathias and his few followers, and this is the little help that is here referred to. See 1 Macc. 2.<p>But many shall cleave to them - As was the case under Judas Maccabeus, when the forces were so far increased as to be able to contend successfully with Antiochus.<p>With flatteries - Perhaps with flattering hopes of spoil or honor; that is, that they would not unite sincerely with the defenders of the true religion, but would be actuated by prospect of plunder or reward. For the meaning of the word, see the notes at <a href="/daniel/11-21.htm">Daniel 11:21</a>. The sense here is not that Judas would flatter them, or would secure their cooperation by flatteries, but that this would be what they would propose to their own minds, and what would influence them. Compare 1 Macc. 5:55-57: "Now what time as Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Galaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais, Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of the garrisons, heard of the valiant acts and warlike deeds which they had done. Wherefore they said, Let us also get us a name, and go fight against the pagan round about us." Compare 2 Macc. 12:40; 13:21. There can be no doubt that many might join them from these motives. Such an event would be likely to occur anywhere, when one was successful, and where there was a prospect of spoils or of fame in uniting with a victorious leader of an amy. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/daniel/11.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>34. a little help—The liberty obtained by the Maccabean heroes for the Jews was of but short duration. They soon fell under the Romans and Herodians, and ever since every attempt to free them from Gentile rule has only aggravated their sad lot. The period of the world times (Gentile rule) is the period of depression of the theocracy, extending from the exile to the millennium [Roos]. The more immediate reference seems to be, the forces of Mattathias and his five sons were originally few (1 Maccabees 2:1-5).<p>many shall cleave to them—as was the case under Judas Maccabeus, who was thus able successfully to resist Antiochus.<p>with flatteries—Those who had deserted the Jewish cause in persecution, now, when success attended the Jewish arms, joined the Maccabean standard, for example, Joseph, the son of Zecharias, Azarias, &c. (1 Maccabees 5:55-57; 2 Maccabees 12:40; 13:21). Maurer explains it, of those who through fear of the Maccabees' severity against apostates joined them, though ready, if it suited their purpose, to desert them (1 Maccabees 2:44; 3:58).<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/daniel/11.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> i.e. God in their affliction, when it is great, wherein he never leaves himself without witness, shall raise up some succour, to be witnesses to this truth, to vindicate his honour and save his people from utter destruction, viz. by the Maccabees. Read what Mattathias and his sons did at Modin, <span class="bld">/APC 1Mac 2</span>, read the chapter, who would not be flattered out of their religion. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/daniel/11.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help,.... When the Jews shall be thus harassed and distressed by Antiochus and his armies, to the ruin of many, by the several sorts of punishments inflicted on them; they should be helped and eased a little by Mattathias, a priest of Modin, and his five sons, commonly called the Maccabees; Porphyry himself interprets this of Mattathias: the help and assistance which he and his sons gave to the Jews was but "little"; if we consider they were persons of a small figure, began with a handful of men, and could do but little, especially at first; and though great exploits were done by them, considering their number and strength, yet they were not able to restore the land to its former glory and liberty; nor did this help of theirs last long, but the enemy returned with great fierceness and cruelty, and sadly afflicted the people of the Jews. Cocceius understands this of the help the Christians had under Constantius Chlorus, and Constantine the great; and so does Sir Isaac Newton, who agrees with him in interpreting this and the preceding verse: he interprets "arms", in <a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/11-31.htm">Daniel 11:31</a>, of the Romans, and so Jacchiades; and makes this to be the beginning of the fourth kingdom that should "stand", "after him"; that is, after Antiochus; so the particle, he observes, is used in <a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/11-8.htm">Daniel 11:8</a>, and it must be owned this is the sense in which it is sometimes used, of which Noldius (l) has given instances: and this seems to agree with the thread of history, and introduces the Romans, who must have a place in this prophecy, in a very proper manner; and carries on the account of things, through the times of Christ, his apostles, the first ages of Christianity under persecution, until the rise of antichrist, <a href="/daniel/11-36.htm">Daniel 11:36</a> and throws light upon the text in <a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/24-15.htm">Matthew 24:15</a>, the language of which seems best to agree with <a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/11-31.htm">Daniel 11:31</a>, and, if so, must respect something to be done, not in the times of Antiochus, but after the times of Christ. <p>But many shall cleave to them with flatteries; seeing Mattathias and his sons succeed, some of those, who had been apostates from their religion, or not heartily friends to it, joined them, but not sincerely; pretended to be on their side, and commended their bravery and courage; and being ambitious of honour and fame, took with them, in order to share the glory of their actions; such were Joseph the son of Zachariah, and Azarias, in the Apocrypha: <p>"56 Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of the garrisons, heard of the valiant acts and warlike deeds which they had done. 57 Wherefore they said, Let us also get us a name, and go fight against the heathen that are round about us.'' (1 Maccabees 5) <p>and those under whose clothes were found idols, or what belonged to them, at Jamnia, when they were slain, in the Apocrypha: <p>"Now under the coats of everyone that was slain they found things consecrated to the idols of the Jamnites, which is forbidden the Jews by the law. Then every man saw that this was the cause wherefore they were slain.'' (2 Maccabees 12:40) <p>and Rhodocus, a soldier of the Jewish army, who betrayed their secrets, in the Apocrypha: <p>"But Rhodocus, who was in the Jews' host, disclosed the secrets to the enemies; therefore he was sought out, and when they had gotten him, they put him in prison.'' (2 Maccabees 13:21) <p>Cocceius applies this to antichrist and his followers pretending to be for Christ and his church, but were not. <p>(l) Concord. Part. Ebr. p. 557. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/daniel/11.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a <span class="cverse3">{p}</span> little help: but many shall cleave to them <span class="cverse3">{q}</span> with flatteries.</span><p>(p) As God will not leave his Church destitute, yet he will not deliver it all at once, but help in such a way that they may still seem to fight under the cross, as he did in the time of the Maccabees, of which he here prophesies.<p>(q) That is, there will even be among this small number many hypocrites.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/daniel/11.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">34</span>. In the midst of their trials a ‘little help’ will arise, to assist them. The allusion is to the rising of the Maccabees. First of all, Mattathias, either alone or assisted only by his sons, resisted openly Antiochus’ demands, and slew one of the officers sent to enforce them (<a href="http://apocrypha.org/1_maccabees/2-15.htm" title="In the mean while the king's officers, such as compelled the people to revolt, came into the city Modin, to make them sacrifice....">1Ma 2:15-28</a>): then others gradually joined themselves to him, and carried the resistance further (<span class="ital">ib. <a href="http://apocrypha.org/1_maccabees/2-39.htm" title="Now when Mattathias and his friends understood hereof, they mourned for them right sore....">1Ma 2:39-48</a></span>): finally, after Mattathias’ death, his son Judas Maccabaeus carried on the struggle. His first victory was gained over Apollonius, who invaded Judah with a considerable army; and shortly afterwards, Seron, commander of the host of Syria, coming to avenge Apollonius’ defeat, was routed with the loss of 800 men, by Judas at the head of a ‘small company’ (<span class="greekheb">Ἰούδας</span> … <span class="greekheb">ὀλιγοστός</span>), <a href="http://apocrypha.org/1_maccabees/3-10.htm" title="Then Apollonius gathered the Gentiles together, and a great host out of Samaria, to fight against Israel....">1Ma 3:10-24</a>. After this, further successes were gained by Judas over Antiochus’ generals Lysias and Gorgias (<span class="ital">ib.</span> <a href="http://apocrypha.org/1_maccabees/3-38.htm" title="Then Lysias chose Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes, Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king's friends:">1Ma 3:38</a> to <a href="http://apocrypha.org/1_maccabees/4-35.htm" title="Now when Lysias saw his army put to flight, and the manliness of Judas' soldiers, and how they were ready either to live or die valiantly, he went into Antiochia, and gathered together a company of strangers, and having made his army greater than it was, he purposed to come again into Judea.">1Ma 4:35</a>), the result of which was that, by the end of b.c. 165, the Jews recovered possession of Mount Zion, and the Temple was re-dedicated (<span class="ital">ib.</span> <a href="http://apocrypha.org/1_maccabees/4-36.htm" title="Then said Judas and his brethren, Behold, our enemies are discomfited: let us go up to cleanse and dedicate the sanctuary....">1Ma 4:36-37</a>). The occasion was celebrated by a festival, lasting eight days (<span class="ital"><a href="http://apocrypha.org/1_maccabees/4-59.htm" title="Moreover Judas and his brethren with the whole congregation of Israel ordained, that the days of the dedication of the altar should be kept in their season from year to year by the space of eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month Casleu, with mirth and gladness.">1Ma 4:59</a></span>), which was observed annually afterwards, and is referred to in <a href="/john/10-22.htm" title="And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.">John 10:22</a> (<span class="greekheb">τὰ ἐγκαίνια</span>).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">but many shall</span> <span class="bld">join themselves</span> (<a href="/isaiah/14-1.htm" title="For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall join to the house of Jacob.">Isaiah 14:1</a>; <a href="/isaiah/56-3.htm" title="Neither let the son of the stranger, that has joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD has utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.">Isaiah 56:3</a>) <span class="ital">unto them with flatteries</span>] or <span class="ital">smooth sayings</span>, i.e. plausible, but insincere, protestations of loyalty. In consequence of the severity shewn by Judas, and the leaders of the patriotic party, many joined them from mere terror, and were ready, if a favourable opportunity offered itself, to turn traitors. On the severity of Judas and the patriots towards the Hellenizing Jews, comp. allusions in <a href="http://apocrypha.org/1_maccabees/2-44.htm" title="So they joined their forces, and smote sinful men in their anger, and wicked men in their wrath: but the rest fled to the heathen for succour.">1Ma 2:44</a>; <a href="http://apocrypha.org/1_maccabees/3-5.htm" title="For He pursued the wicked, and sought them out, and burnt up those that vexed his people.">1Ma 3:5</a><span class="ital"> a</span>, 8, <a href="/context/daniel/6-21.htm" title="Then said Daniel to the king, O king, live for ever....">Daniel 6:21-27</a>, <a href="/context/daniel/7-5.htm" title="And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh....">Daniel 7:5-7</a>; <a href="/daniel/7-24.htm" title="And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.">Daniel 7:24</a> (where Judas, it is said, ‘took vengeance on the men that had deserted from him’), <a href="/daniel/9-23.htm" title="At the beginning of your supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to show you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.">Daniel 9:23</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/daniel/11.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 34.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.</span> The Septuagint rendering is, "And when they are crushed many shall be gathered to them in (<span class="greek">ἐπί</span>) the city, even many as in distribution by lot (<span class="greek">κληροδοσία</span>)." This phrase is rendered by Paulus Tellensis (<span class="accented">poolog pesa</span>), "the division of the lots;" wrongly rendered by Bugati, <span class="accented">in hereditate.</span> The reading here is due to dropping of the reduplication in <span class="accented">heltqluqoth.</span> The Peshitta generally agrees with the Massoretic, only it renders the last clause, "Many shall add themselves to them in division, (<span class="accented">palgootha</span>)," which, however, Castelli renders in this one case as <span class="accented">simulatio.</span> When success crowned the arms of Judas and his brethren, many of the Sadducean party joined themselves to them, although formerly they belonged to the Hellenizers. This association rendered the Assidaeans dissatisfied, and resulted in disaster. Probably the reference is to nothing so far down history. When Judas began to be successful, many would join him, hoping, by a limited amount of treachery to Judas, to secure safety if the king ultimately prevailed, while at the same time, their presence with the Maccabees would save them from the vengeance of their own countrymen if Judas were successful and the Syrian yoke thrown off. Daniel 11:34<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/daniel/11.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>Through the fall of the pious in war little help shall come to the people of God. מעט (little) is not "spoken contemptuously" (Hitzig), but the help is so named in comparison with the great deliverance which shall come to the people of God in the time of the end by the complete destruction of the oppressor. We may not therefore, with Hitzig and others, limit this expression to the circumstance that with the victories of Judas Maccabaeus (1 Macc. 3:11ff., 23ff., 4:14, etc.) they were far from gaining all, for they also met with a defeat (1 Macc. 5:60f.). For with the overthrow of Antiochus and the liberation of the Jews from the Syrian yoke, full help was not yet rendered to the people of God. The "little help" consists in this, that by the rising up and the wars of those that had understanding among the people the theocracy was preserved, the destruction of the service of Jehovah and of the church of God, which was aimed at by the hostile king, was prevented, and, as the following clauses express, the purifying of the people of God is brought about. This purifying is the design and the fruit of the oppression which God brings upon His people by means of the hostile king. The attaining of this end is a "little help" in comparison with the complete victory over the arch-enemy of the time of the end. Many shall connect themselves with the משׂכּילים (intelligentes, <a href="/daniel/11-33.htm">Daniel 11:33</a>) with flatteries (as <a href="/daniel/11-21.htm">Daniel 11:21</a>). 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