Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 11:24

24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province , and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers fathers, he shall scatter among them the prey and spoil, and riches; yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong-holds , even for a time .

He shall come in upon the Egyptians under pretence of peace, and in time of Peace, to a secure People in a plentiful, and delicious Countrey, and among a mass of Treasures which the Kings successively had heaped up, the greatest part of which this Antiochus took and distributed among his chiefest Confidents whereby he obliged them the faster to him, for he was large hearted and liberal. He did herein (saith the Text) what his Fathers had not done, the Kings of Syria before him could never attain to this success over Aegypt, as he did.

i. e. Having succeeded thus far in the lesser places of the Countrey he shall proceed to the most important Cities and Places of greatest strength in that Kingdom.

That is till God put a stop to his carriere, for he held Aegypt not long, the Aegyptians found means to deliver themselves from his yoke when their King grew to riper years, yet against this did Antiochus fore-cast his devices, as saith the Text.

Marginal references: Or, into the peaceable and fat, &c.; Heb. think his thoughts.