Alexander dies at Babylon, aged 32
At the height of his power, planning still more conquests, Alexander fell ill and died at Babylon. He left no adult heir, and his generals began to fight over his empire.
The male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky.
Daniel 8:8 (World English Bible)
Alexander had marched as far as the rivers of India before his exhausted army refused to go on. Back in Babylon he was planning to conquer Arabia when, after days of feasting, he fell ill with a fever and died. He had reigned less than thirteen years.
Daniel had seen it: when the goat was strong, “the great horn was broken” (Daniel 8:8). Alexander's half-brother and his infant son were made kings in name only, and both were murdered within fourteen years, so that his kingdom passed “not to his posterity” (Daniel 11:4).
Ancient witnesses outside the Bible
Historical sources, not Scripture.
Dating notes
Ussher dates his death to late May 323 BC. Babylonian astronomical records fix it at 10 or 11 June 323 BC, the date most historians use.