Commentary for Daniel 11:4

And when he arises, his kingdom will be broken When he becomes very strong and reaches the height of his strength, his kingdom will be broken, meaning that he will die.

and it will be divided to the four directions of the heavens It is written in the book of Ben Gorion (ch. 14) that he divided his kingdom between the four heads of his family; they are the four heads of the leopard that Daniel saw (above 7:6): “And behold another one, like a leopard, and it had four wings of a bird on its back, and the beast had four heads.” He gave this one dominion in the east, this one in the west, this one in the north and this one in the south, and so in the first vision (8:8): “an appearance of four sprouted in its stead,” concerning the horns of the he-goat.

but not to his posterity The dominion will not come to his sons but to his family members. [The word] אַחֲרִיתוֹ coincides only with the expression of sons, and so Scripture states (Amos 4:2): “and you shall be borne on shields and your posterity (אַחֲרִיתְכֶן) in fishing boats,” which Jonathan renders: and your sons (sic) and daughters in fishermen’s boats.

and not like the dominion that he ruled but the kingdom of these will not be as strong as that of Alexander.

for his kingdom will be uprooted to divide to these four heads and to others besides these.