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Daniel 8:10

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8:10 It grew so big it reached the army 1  of heaven, and it brought about the fall of some of the army and some of the stars 2  to the ground, where it trampled them.

Philippians 2:15

Context
2:15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world 3 
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[8:10]  1 tn Traditionally, “host.” The term refers to God’s heavenly angelic assembly, which he sometimes leads into battle as an army.

[8:10]  2 sn In prescientific Israelite thinking the stars were associated with the angelic members of God’s heavenly assembly. See Judg 5:20; Job 38:7; Isa 40:26. In west Semitic mythology the stars were members of the high god’s divine assembly (see Isa 14:13).

[2:15]  3 tn Or “as stars in the universe.”



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