Daniel 8:11

And even unto the prince of the host it magnified itself] it not only mounted to the stars, but in impious defiance it shewed greatness(Daniel 8:4; Daniel 8:25), i.e. continued its acts of pride and presumption, even tothe throne of the prince of the host, i.e. of God himself.

and it took away from him (i.e. from the prince of the host) the continual (burnt-offering)] So the Heb. text (K'tib): the Heb. marg. (Qrê) has, and by it the continual (burnt-offering) was taken away. The allusion is to Antiochus" suspension of the temple-services for three years (1Ma 1:45; 1Ma 1:59; 1Ma 4:52 f.); see further on Daniel 11:31.

The daily burnt-offering is called in Exodus 29:42 and elsewhere the -continual (i.e. daily recurring) burnt-offering," lit. -the burnt-offering of continuance (Heb. tâmîd)": from this expression, the daily burnt-offering came in later Heb. to be spoken of simply as -the tâmîd"; and this usage is found here, and in Daniel 8:12; Daniel 11:31; Daniel 12:11. It does not occur elsewhere in the O.T., but it is common in the Mishna, &c., where the word is even used in the plural, -the tâmîds" (תמידין).

and the place of his sanctuary was cast down or, by a change of points, which has the effect of improving the sentence, and cast down the place, &c. The Temple does not seem to have been literally -cast down" by Antiochus: but it suffered severely at his hands: its sacred vessels were carried away (1Ma 1:21-23); the sanctuary is described as being -laid waste like a wilderness (8:39), and -trampled down (καταπατούμενον)" (1Ma 3:45); and in 1Ma 4:38 we read that when Judas and his brethren went up to mount Zion for the purpose of re-dedicating it, they -saw the sanctuary laid desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burned up, and shrubs growing in the court as in a forest or in one of the mountains, and the priests" chambers pulled down" (cf. 8:48, -and they builtthe holy place (τὰ ἅγια), and the inner parts of the house").

place not the usual word, but a rarer word, chiefly poetical, and meaning properly fixedor establishedplace, used mostly of God's abode, whether on earth, Exo 15:17, 1 Kings 8:13, or in heaven, Isa 18:4, 1 Kings 8:39; 1Ki 8:43; 1 Kings 8:49; Psalms 33:14, al.