The two major powers that existed to the south and north of Jerusalem after the death of Alexander the Great were Egypt to the south (with its kings referred to as Ptolemy) and Syria to the north (with its kings referred to as Seleucus or Antiochus).

Not only was the prophecy going to occur quite some time in the future from when Daniel received it, it was also primarily focused on what would happen to the Jewish people—Daniel’s people. In the central part of the country, [Shoshenq I's campaign] caused the decline of an early Israelite entity [Gibeon polity], probably the one memorized in the Bible as the House of Saul, and the rise of the Northern Kingdom, which was centered around Shechem and expanded, under pharaonic auspices, to the Jezreel--Beth-shean Valley. During the three-year siege of Samaria in the territory of Ephraim by the Assyrians, Shalmaneser V died and was succeeded by Sargon II, who himself records the capture of that city thus: "Samaria I looked at, I captured; 27,280 men who dwelt in it I carried away" into Assyria. House Stark rules the North as its monarchs as they have been for thousands of years before Aegon's Conquest.Hudson, Benjamin (2005), Viking Pirates and Christian Princes: Dynasty, Religion and Empire in the North Atlantic, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-516237-4, p. Please dont feel any obligation to do so, I've started this blog because it's fun, not to make any money.

To understand the origins of today’s conflict in the Middle East, see the article “ Middle East Conflict” and related articles. Rejecting House Baratheon of King's Landing and the Iron Throne, the northern and river lords assembled at Riverrun after the Battle of the Camps declare Eddard's eldest son, Robb, to be the King in the North. After the Rape of the Three Sisters, the Starks battled with the Kings of Mountain and Vale from Arryn over the Bite for a thousand years in the War Across the Water.The Hebrew Bible, however, states that some of the northern Israelites also adored Baal (see 1 Kings 16:31 and the Baal cycle discovered at Ugarit). At that time, the king of the north, along with the rest of the nations that make up Gog of Magog, comes to his end, and there will be “no helper for him”.

In Daniel 11:40 we read of “the king of the South” attacking “the king of the North” at “the time of the end. When the richest provinces feel secure, he will invade them and will achieve what neither his fathers nor his forefathers did. Here we are told that Daniel was given the message in the “third year of Cyrus king of Persia” ( Daniel 10:1). In those days she will be handed over, together with her royal escort and her father and the one who supported her. After his time, there was still a king of the South and a king of the North, and it is common with prophecy to telescope events, hitting only the high points.More problematic is the ex-pirate Alured, who schemes to seize Kieri’s throne for himself - and Mikeli’s, too, while he’s at it. Because he is childless and his younger brothers, Bran and Rickon, are believed dead at Theon's hands, King Robb worries that Tyrion Lannister will claim Winterfell through his marriage to Sansa Stark. The very next verse in Daniel’s account gives more details about how the king of the north and his allies will come to their end and how we will be saved. Read more about the multiple fulfillments of the prophecy of the abomination of desolation in our article “ What Is the Abomination of Desolation? He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any god, but will exalt himself above them all.