Discovery BoxDaniel 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 11:11
Context11:11 “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
Context11:13 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
