Misinterpretations often detach this verse from its historical fulfillment in the Greco-Syrian wars, viewing the 'daughter of women' as a futuristic apocalyptic figure like a mysterious end-times agent or even the Antichrist's consort rather than Cleopatra I; others allegorize it personally as failed romantic betrayals or spiritual corruptions unrelated to the precise prophecy of Ptolemaic-Seleucid conflicts, ignoring the chapter's detailed sequence of events from Alexander's successors to Antiochus Epiphanes, thus missing the core truth of God's sovereign prediction of geopolitical intrigues.
Daniel 11:17
King James Version (1769)
17 He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.
Daniel 11:17 prophesies the king of the North's strategic maneuver against the king of the South by deploying his full military might and arranging a marriage alliance, offering his daughter to corrupt and undermine the southern kingdom from within; historically fulfilled when Antiochus III of Syria betrothed his daughter Cleopatra I to Ptolemy V of Egypt in 193 BC, intending her loyalty to serve Syrian interests, yet demonstrating divine foreknowledge as the plan faltered when she instead supported her husband and Egypt.