Daniel 8:10

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.

Daniel 11:11

11:11 “Then the king of the south 3  will be enraged and will march out to fight against the king of the north, who will also muster a large army, but that army will be delivered into his hand.

Daniel 11:13

11:13 For the king of the north will again muster an army, one larger than before. At the end of some years he will advance with a huge army and enormous supplies.

1 tn Traditionally, “host.” The term refers to God’s heavenly angelic assembly, which he sometimes leads into battle as an army.

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).

3 sn This king of the south refers to Ptolemy IV Philopator (ca. 221-204 B.C.).