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Daniel 8:10
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Ia menjadi besar, bahkan sampai kepada bala tentara langit, dan dari bala tentara itu, dari bintang-bintang, dijatuhkannya beberapa ke bumi, dan diinjak-injaknya.
Maka bertambahlah besar ia sampai ke tentara yang di langit, dan dari pada tentara itu, yaitu dari pada segala bintang, digugurkannya beberapa buah ke bumi, lalu dipijak-pijaknya.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
to the host: or, against the host, Daniel 8:24, Daniel 8:25, Daniel 11:28, Daniel 11:30, Daniel 11:33-36, Isaiah 14:13, Revelation 12:4
and stamped: Daniel 8:7, Daniel 7:7
Reciprocal: Genesis 37:9 - stars Daniel 11:22 - also Daniel 11:35 - some Revelation 1:16 - he had Revelation 6:13 - the stars Revelation 11:2 - tread
Cross-References
For after seuen dayes, I wyl rayne vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes: & all substaunce that I haue made, wyll I destroy from the vpper face of the earth.
And so it came to passe after seuen dayes, that the waters of the flud were vpon the earth.
And he abode yet other seuen dayes, and sent foorth the Doue, whiche returned not vnto him any more.
I wayted patiently vpon God, and he enclined vnto me [his eare]: and heard my crying.
And I wyll wayte vpon the Lorde that hideth his face from the house of Iacob, and I wyll loke for him.
Yea in the way of thy iudgementes, O Lord, haue we put our trust in thee: thy name also and the remembraunce of thee, is the thing that our soule longeth for.
But and yf we hope for that we see not, the do we with pacience abide for it.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven,.... The people of the Jews, the army of the living God, the church militant, among whom were many of the citizens of heaven, whose names are written there; such was the insolence of this king, as to molest and disturb them:
and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped them; some of the common people he persecuted and destroyed, or prevailed upon them, either by threats or flatteries, to relinquish their religion; and even some of the "stars", the lights of the people, the priests and Levites, that ministered unto them; or the princes, and elders of the people, whom he slew, as Jacchiades interprets it; or removed from their posts so that they could not do their office; or they turned apostates; and those that did not he barbarously put to death, and insulted over them, and used them in a very contemptuous manner, as old Eleazar, the mother and her seven sons; see 2 Maccabees chapter 7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And it waxed great - It became very powerful. This was eminently true of Antiochus, after having subdued Egypt, etc.
Even to the host of heaven - Margin, against. The Hebrew word (עד ‛ad) means “to” or “unto,” and the natural idea would seem to be that he wished to place himself among the stars, or to exalt himself above all that was earthly. Compare the notes at Isaiah 14:13 : “For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.” Lengerke supposes that the meaning here is, that he not only carried his conquests to Egypt and to the East, and to the holy land in general, but that he made war on the holy army of God - the priests and worshippers of Jehovah, here spoken of as the host of heaven. So Maurer understands it. In 2 Macc. 9:10, Antiochus is described in this language: “And the man that thought a little afore he could reach the stars of heaven, etc.” The connection, would seem to demand the interpretation proposed by Lengerke and Maurer, for it is immediately said that he cast down some of the host and the stars to the ground. And such an interpretation accords with the language elsewhere used, of the priests and rulers of the Hebrew people. Thus, in Isaiah 24:21, they are called “the host of the high ones that are on high.” See the note at that passage. This language is by no means uncommon in the Scriptures. It is usual to compare princes and rulers, and especially ecclesiastical rulers, with the sun, moon, and stars. Undoubtedly it is the design here to describe the pride and ambition of Antiochus, and to show that he did not think anything too exalted for his aspiration. None were too high or too sacred to be secure from his attempts to overthrow them, and even those who, by their position and character, seemed to deserve to be spoken of as suns and stars, as “the host of heaven,” were not secure.
And it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground - The horn seemed to grow up to the stars, and to wrest them from their places, and to cast them to the earth. Antiochus, in the fulfillment of this, east down and trampled on the princes, and rulers, and people, of the holy host or army of God. All that is implied in this was abundantly fulfilled in what he did to the Jewish people. Compare 1 Macc. 1, and 2 Macc. 8:2.
And stamped upon them - With indignation and contempt. Nothing could better express the conduct of Antiochus toward the Jews.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Daniel 8:10. The host of heaven — The Jewish hierarchy. The stars, the priests and Levites. The powers or host of heaven are probably intended by our Lord, Matthew 24:29, to signify the whole Jewish hierarchy.