Daniel 11:30

“For the ships of Chittim shall come against him, etc.] Ptolemy king of Egypt, and his brother, being come to an agreement, sent an embassy to the senate of Rome, to implore their help and assistance against Antiochus, who was preparing to besiege them in Alexandria; upon which they sent their ambassadors Caius Popilius Laenas, Caius Decimus, and Caius Hostilius, in ships from Macedoniaf553, or Greece, to Antiochus, to require him to desist from making war upon Ptolemy, and that he quit the land of Egypt; (see <042424>Numbers 24:24). Macedonia is called the land of Cittim, in the Apocrypha: ''And it happened, after that Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian, who came out of the land of…”

“ships of Chittim--the Roman ambassadors arriving in Macedonian Grecian vessels (see on Jer 2:10). Chittim, properly Cyprian, so called from a PhÅ“nician colony in Cyprus; then the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean in general. grieved--humbled and dispirited through fear of Rome. indignation against the holy covenant--Indignant that meantime God's worship had been restored at Jerusalem, he gives vent to his wrath at the check given him by Rome, on the Jews. intelligence with them that forsake the . . . covenant--namely, with the apostates in the nation (1 Maccabees 1:11-15). Menelaus and other Jews instigated the king against their religion and country, learning from Greek philosophy…”

“For the ships of Chittim shall come against him - The word rendered Chittim - כתים kı̂ttı̂ym - according to Gesenius, properly means “Cyprians,” so called from a celebrated Phoenician colony in the island of Cyprus. In a wider acceptation the name came to comprehend the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, especially the northern parts, and therefore stands for the islands and coasts of Greece and the AEgean Sea. See Gesenius, Lexicon, and compare Josephus, “Ant.” b. i. ch. vi. 1. The Egyptian government had called in the aid of the Romans, and Antiochus, therefore, was threatened with a war with the Romans if he did not abandon his enterprise against Egypt. The reference in the…”

“The ships of Chittim - The Romans out of Italy, and the Archipelago. This made his heart boil with rancor, which he spit out against the Jews; especially being solicited to it by Jason first, and Menelaus after, who were apostates, and betrayers of their brethren. Daniel 11:31”

“the ships: He was compelled to retire from Egypt by Roman ambassadors. Gen 10:4; Num 24:24; Ch1 1:7; Isa 23:1, Isa 23:12; Jer 2:10; Eze 27:6 and have indignation: Dan 11:28, Dan 7:25; Rev 12:12 have intelligence: Neh 6:12; Mat 24:10 Daniel 11:31”