1. He is responsible for helping and defending me.
2. And what I am now going to tell you is true.”The angel said, “Three more kings will rule over Persia, followed by a fourth, who will be richer than all the others. At the height of his power and wealth he will challenge the kingdom of Greece.
3. “Then a heroic king will appear. He will rule over a huge empire and do whatever he wants.
4. But at the height of his power his empire will break up and be divided into four parts. Kings not descended from him will rule in his place, but they will not have the power that he had.
5. “The king of Egypt will be strong. One of his generals, however, will be even stronger and rule a greater kingdom.
6. After a number of years the king of Egypt will make an alliance with the king of Syria and give him his daughter in marriage. But the alliance will not last, and she, her husband, her child, and the servants who went with her will all be killed.
7. Soon afterwards, one of her relatives will become king. He will attack the army of the king of Syria, enter their fortress, and defeat them.
8. He will carry back to Egypt the images of their gods and the articles of gold and silver dedicated to those gods. After several years of peace
9. the king of Syria will invade Egypt, but he will be forced to retreat.
10. “The sons of the king of Syria will prepare for war and gather a large army. One of them will sweep on like a flood and attack an enemy fortress.
11. In his anger the king of Egypt will go to war against the king of Syria and capture his huge army.
12. He will be proud of his victory and of the many soldiers he has killed, but he will not continue to be victorious.
13. “The king of Syria will go back and gather a larger army than he had before. When the proper time comes, he will return with a large, well-equipped army.
14. Then many people will rebel against the king of Egypt. And some of the violent from your nation, Daniel, will rebel because of a vision they have seen, but they will be defeated.
15. So the king of Syria will lay siege to a fortified city and capture it. The soldiers of Egypt will not continue to fight; even the best of them will not have enough strength.
16. The Syrian invader will do with them as he pleases, without opposition. He will stand in the Promised Land and have it completely in his power.