Daniel 8:10
Context8:10 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.
Daniel 8:16
Context8:16 Then I heard a human voice coming from between the banks of the Ulai. It called out, “Gabriel, 3 enable this person to understand the vision.”
[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).
[8:16] 3 sn The only angels whose names are given in the OT are Gabriel (Dan 8:16; 9:21; cf. Luke 1:19, 26) and Michael (Dan 10:13, 21; 12:1; cf. Jude 9; Rev 12:7). The name Gabriel means in Hebrew “man of God,” and Michael means “who is like God?”





