Daniel 11:7-13 - He will advance with a huge army

11:7-10

We get more on the ongoing conflict between the south and the north. It makes it explicit that “south” refers to Egypt. There are times of conflict, then times of relative peace, or at least the absence of war. In v 10 this culminates in a large scale conflict. The various battles and intrigues of this chapter involved the Ptolemies of Egypt (the South) and the Seleucids (the North).

11:11-13

The attempted massive attack from the North will be countered by an attack by the South. The North will try to resist this but will fail. The king of the South will be full of himself at this victory. He will then slaughter many thousands, but will not achieve ultimate victory. The North will muster an even greater army, this will be some several years later. This will be  a huge army, and a well equipped one.