After a number of years the king of Egypt will make an alliance with the king of Syria and give him his daughter in marriage. But the alliance will not last, and she, her husband, her child, and the servants who went with her will all be killed.

Soon afterward one of her relatives will become king. He will attack the army of the king of Syria, enter their fortress, and defeat them.

For seven years he will not have a human mind, but the mind of an animal.

The angel raised both hands toward the sky and made a solemn promise in the name of the Eternal God. I heard him say, "It will be three and a half years. When the persecution of God's people ends, all these things will have happened."