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Now when they fall, they will be granted a little help, but many will join them insincerely.
Daniel 11:34 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves to them with flatteries.
  • KJV Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
  • NKJV Now when they fall, they shall be aided with a little help; but many shall join with them by intrigue.
  • NASB Now when they fall they will be granted a little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy.
  • NLT During these persecutions, little help will arrive, and many who join them will not be sincere.

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Quick answer

When they fall they receive a little help, but many join them insincerely with flattery. Genuine deliverance is partial, and not all who attach themselves are sincere.

Overview

A measure of relief comes to the faithful, perhaps the early Maccabean successes, yet some join the cause hypocritically rather than in true faith. The 'little help' reminds us that ultimate deliverance does not come through human effort alone. The mixing of false adherents with the faithful is a perennial reality the church must discern, awaiting God's final purifying.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Matt 7:15Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
  • Rom 16:18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
  • Acts 20:29–30I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.
  • 1 Jn 4:1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
  • 2 Pet 2:18–19With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
  • 2 Tim 3:1–7But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.
  • 2 Tim 4:3For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
  • 1 Tim 4:1–2Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
  • Gal 2:4This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.
  • 2 Jn 1:7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, refusing to confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
  • 1 Jn 2:18–19Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.
  • 2 Cor 11:13–15For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
  • Titus 1:11who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.
  • Rev 2:20But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
  • Rev 12:13And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
  • Rev 12:2–6She was pregnant and crying out in the pain and agony of giving birth.
  • 2 Pet 2:1–3Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
  • Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
  • Rev 13:11–14Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. This beast had two horns like a lamb, but spoke like a dragon.
  • 1 Jn 4:5They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.

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