Misinterpretations often futurize this verse to describe an end-times Antichrist conquering global armies and breaking a future covenant, overlooking its primary historical fulfillment in Antiochus IV's swift victories over Egyptian forces and his treacherous assassination of Onias III around 171 BC; others allegorize it as personal spiritual warfare where Satan floods believers with trials, ignoring the chapter's detailed geopolitical prophecy about Seleucid-Ptolemaic conflicts and Jewish leadership.
Daniel 11:22
King James Version (1769)
22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
Daniel 11:22 prophesies the overwhelming military success of a northern king, likely Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who will sweep away strong opposing forces like a flood and betray even the prince of the covenant, referring to his deceitful removal of the faithful high priest Onias III, underscoring God's precise foreknowledge of historical events and the fragility of human alliances and power in the face of divine sovereignty during the turbulent Hellenistic period.