Dan 11:4 | KingComments | STEP | Alexander the Great’s heyday lasted only a little over ten years. In the year 323 BC he is believed to have died of malaria. When he dies, he leaves behind a son named Hercules. A second son is born shortly after his death. They are both murdered. His four generals and their successors, after a hard battle, divide his great inheritance among themselves (cf. ). The division is as follows: 1. Seleucus gets Syria in the east, 2. Lysimachus gets Asia Minor in the north, 3. Ptolemy gets Egypt in the south and 4. Cassander gets Macedonia in the west. Thus the Greek empire is “parceled out toward the four points of the compass”, where the four points of the compass are seen from the position of the Persian empire.

‏ Daniel 11:4

The Greek Empire Divided Into Four Parts

Alexander the Great’s heyday lasted only a little over ten years. In the year 323 BC he is believed to have died of malaria. When he dies, he leaves behind a son named Hercules. A second son is born shortly after his death. They are both murdered. His four generals and their successors, after a hard battle, divide his great inheritance among themselves (cf. Dan 8:8 ; 22). The division is as follows:

1. Seleucus gets Syria in the east,

2. Lysimachus gets Asia Minor in the north,

3. Ptolemy gets Egypt in the south and

4. Cassander gets Macedonia in the west.

Thus the Greek empire is “parceled out toward the four points of the compass”, where the four points of the compass are seen from the position of the Persian empire.