Forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt offering, and they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.
⛓ Read Daniel 11 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
Daniel 11:31's forces that 'profane the temple... and set up the abomination that makes desolate' supplies the historical referent (Antiochus' altar to Zeus) reapplied to a future profanation. Mark's 'standing where it ought not' (i.e., in the holy place) directly tracks this temple-desecration sense.
High confidenceThe same 'abomination that makes desolate' is set up in the temple in Daniel 11:31, the historical referent in the Antiochene desecration; Jesus' explicit Danielic citation conflates 11:31 with 9:27 and 12:11 as the prophetic source.
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A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Daniel's profanation of the sanctuary and setting up the abomination underlies Paul's 'sits as God in the temple of God.' The desecration-of-the-temple motif is drawn directly from Daniel's depiction of the eschatological tyrant.
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