Perdiccas, 323-320 Antigonus (western Asia Minor) 288-285 Antipater (Macedonia) 301, after Ipsus Lysimachus (Anatolia, Thrace) Archon (Babylon) Lysimachus (Anatolia, Thrace) Ptolemy (Egypt) Asander (Caria) Ptolemy (Egypt) Seleucus (Babylonia, N. Syria) Persia to Alexander the Great Atropates (northern Media) 315-311 Alexander’s Seleucus (Babylonia, N. Syria) Eumenes (Cappadocia, Pontus) vs. 318-316 Cassander Cassander (Macedonia) Laomedon (Syria) Lysimachus Daniel 11:1-4 Antigonus Demetrius (Cyprus, Tyre, Demetrius (Macedonia, Cyprus, Leonnatus (Phrygia) Ptolemy Successors Cassander Sidon, Agaean islands) Tyre, Sidon, Agaean islands) Lysimachus (Thrace) Peithon Seleucus Menander (Lydia) Ptolemy Bythinia Bythinia Olympias (Epirus) vs. 332-260 BC Seleucus Epirus Epirus “And now I will tell you the truth. Behold, three more kings are going to arise Peithon (southern Media) Antigonus Greece Greece Philippus (Bactria) vs. Aristodemus Heraclean kingdom Heraclean kingdom Ptolemy (Egypt) Demetrius in Persia. Then a fourth will gain far more riches than all of them; as soon as Eumenes Paeonia Paeonia Stasanor (Aria) Nearchus Olympias Pontus Pontus and others . . . Peithon Polyperchon Rhodes Rhodes he becomes strong through his riches, he will arouse the whole empire against the realm of Greece. And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great authority and do as he pleases.” (Dan 11:2-3)
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Antipater, 320-319 Alcetas and Attalus (Pisidia ) Antigenes (Susiana) Antigonus (army in Asia) Arrhidaeus (Phrygia) Cassander (chiliarch) Cleitus (Lydia) 250 Laomedon (Syria) Antigonus II Gonatas (Macedonia) Menander (2nd under Antiochus II (Asia, Syria, Babylonia) Kings of 307 281 Ptolemy II (Egypt) Antigonus) Peace of 311 Cassander (Macedonia) Antigonus II Gonatas (Macedonia) Nicanor (Cappadocia) Antigonus (Asia) Lysimachus (Thrace) Antiochus I (Babylonia, northern Syria) Bactria Olympias (Epirus) Cassander (Macedonia) Ptolemy (Egypt) Ptolemy II (Egypt ) Peithon (eastern satrapies) Bythinia Lysimachus (Thrace) Seleucus (Babylon) Epirus Peucestas (Persis &Susiana) Ptolemy (Egypt) Bythinia vs. Greece Philippus (Parthia) Epirus Ptolemy (Egypt) Heraclean kingdom excluded - Antigonus (Asia) Greece Paeonia Seleucus (Babylon) Polyperchon (Corinth) Demetrius (Asia co-ruler) Heraclean kingdom Stasander (Aria) Parthia Seleucus (Babylon) Paeonia Pergamum Stasanor (Bactria) Greece Pontus and others . . . Pontus Greece Paeonia Rhodes Rhodes Chart of the successors to Alexander the Great, “to the four winds of heaven” Dan 11:4. Map of the division of Alexander’s empire, circa 250 BC.
Points to Ponder
Prophecy is selective. Only in retrospect can we see the gaps.
God works his will with humans, even as he allows them significant
freedom.