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Now when they fall, they shall be aided with a little help; but many shall join with them by intrigue.
Daniel 11:34 · New King James Version
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.
  • BSB Now when they fall, they will be granted a little help, but many will join them insincerely.
  • 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 7:15“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
  • Rom 16:18For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
  • Acts 20:29–30For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
  • 1 Jn 4:1Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
  • 2 Pet 2:18–19For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
  • 2 Tim 3:1–7But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
  • 2 Tim 4:3For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;
  • 1 Tim 4:1–2But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
  • Gal 2:4This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;
  • 2 Jn 1:7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
  • 1 Jn 2:18–19Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.
  • 2 Cor 11:13–15For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
  • Titus 1:11whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
  • Rev 2:20But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
  • Rev 12:13When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.
  • Rev 12:2–6She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
  • 2 Pet 2:1–3But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
  • Jude 1:4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
  • Rev 13:11–14I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
  • 1 Jn 4:5They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

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