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Daniel 8:12-14

DANIEL—NOTE ON Daniel 8:12 Because of renewed transgression on the part of God’s people, the saints and the temple sacrifices were handed over to Antiochus IV, but only for a limited period: 2,300 evenings and mornings, or a little over six years. In the end, the little horn will be judged and the sanctuary restored to its rightful state. Unlike the less precise “time, times, and half a time” of Daniel 7:25, this period is measured in days, suggesting that God has a precise calendar for the times of his people’s suffering.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Daniel 8:12. _AND A HOST WAS GIVEN HIM_] That is, _power_; or perhaps _the host of heaven_ - the _priesthood_ - the whole sacrificial system, by reason of _transgression_. They had filled up the...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND A HOST WAS GIVEN HIM - The Vulgate renders this, “and strength - _robur_ - was given him, etc.” Theodotion, “and sin was permitted - ἐδόθη _edothē_ - against the sacrifice; and this righteousne...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8 THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT _ 1. The vision (Daniel 8:1)_ 2. The interpretation of the vision (Daniel 8:15) Daniel 8:1. Beginning with this chapter to the end of the book prophecy will lead us...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DANIEL 8. THE VISION OF THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT. This chapter gives an account of another vision which came to Daniel in Shushan. Near the river Ulai a ram with two horns is seen pushing invincibly we...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AN HOST. Here the word is used of. military host, in opposition to the "host" of Numbers 4:23; Numbers 4:30; Numbers 4:35; Numbers 4:39;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Antiochus Epiphanes (b.c. 175 164), and his assaults upon the religion of the Jews (cf. Daniel 8:23)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And a host_, &c. The first part of this verse is difficult and uncertain; but the most natural rendering is, - _And a host_ WAS APPOINTED [or, A WARFARE (Isaiah 40:2) WAS UNDERTAKEN] AGAINST [324] TH...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    OUT OF ONE OF THEM CAME FORTH A LITTLE HORN, &C.— There are two ways of expounding this prophesy of the _little horn;_ either by understanding it with the generality of interpreters, both Jewish and C...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND AN HOST WAS GIVEN HIM— _Moreover, a ministry was delivered to him against,_ &c.—_He cast the truth to the ground, and whatever he undertook, it prospered._ Houbigant. See commentary on Daniel 8:9...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. THE GREAT HORN AND THE RIGHTEOUS PRINCE TEXT: Daniel 8:9-17 9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered. AN HOST - rather, as the Hebrew, 'the ho...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    8:12 trial (a-5) Or 'distress;' same word as 'service,' Numbers 4:3 ; 'suffering,' Isaiah 40:2 . it (b-17) i.e. the little horn. practised (c-27) Or 'wrought,' 'did great things.' see 1 Samuel 26:25 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE VISION OF THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT In the third year of Belshazzar Daniel has a vision in which he seems to stand by the river Ulai, near Susa (Daniel 8:1). He sees a two-homed ram which behaves ag...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MEN WHO WERE LOYAL TO GOD DANIEL _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 8 V1 In the third year that King Belshazzar ruled Babylon, I, Daniel, had another dream. V2 In my dream, I saw myself in the castle at...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AN HOST... — The host is apparently the same as that which is mentioned in Daniel 8:10, and means some of the Jewish people. It is known that some of them lapsed under the persecutions of Antiochus, a...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ צָבָ֛א תִּנָּתֵ֥ן עַל ־הַ תָּמִ֖יד בְּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT This vision is dated as having occurred in the third year of Belshazzar; but it is not easy to see the significance of the date, since it is almost exclusively occupied with t...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S SANCTUARY DISHONORED Daniel 8:1-14 Shushan was the lily palace. There, by the river Ulai, the prophet beheld in vision the attack which would subsequently be made on the Medo-Persian kingdom by...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Two years later, in the third year of king Belshazzar's reign, another vision came to Daniel. It was of a ram with two horns pushing westward, northward, and southward. As Daniel watched, a he goat at...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And (s) an host was given [him] against the daily [sacrifice] by reason of transgression, and it (t) cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered. (s) He shows that their sins a...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Strength. Hebrew: "the army was delivered up to him, for the," &c. While several contended for the high priesthood, and imitated the manners of the Greeks, the sacrifices were neglected, and then Anti...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The principal feature of this history, in the battle of rams and he-goats, (meaning the kings of the earth), is what is said of this creature magnifying himself against the Prince of the host, even Je...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet mitigates the asperity which he now records. It seems absurd for God to allow such license to Antiochus, that his temple should be spoiled and all sacrifices and all worship exterminated....

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 8 gives details of that which takes place from another side of Judea, with reference to the Jews. The two empires of Persia and Greece, or of the East, which succeeded that of Babylon under wh...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND AN HOST WAS GIVEN HIM AGAINST THE DAILY SACRIFICE BY REASON OF TRANSGRESSION,.... Which some interpret of a garrison of soldiers placed by Antiochus, through his sin and wickedness, to hinder the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And an host was given [him] against the daily [sacrifice] by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered. Ver. 12. _And an host was given him._]...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And a host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression_ Antiochus prospered so far in his attempts against the Jews and their religion, that he built a citadel in the city of...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, that is, "warfare was inaugurated against the daily sacrifice with outrage," with idolatrous worship by the heathen ru...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE VISION ITSELF...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    AN HOST WAS GIVEN HIM AGAINST THE DAILY SACRIFICE BY REASON OF TRANSGRESSION: Or, the host was given over for the transgression against the daily sacrifice...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-14 God gives Daniel a foresight of the destruction of other kingdoms, which in their day were as powerful as that of Babylon. Could we foresee the changes that shall be when we are gone, we should...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BY REASON OF TRANSGRESSION, i.e. either the transgression of the priests, for Jason perfidiously took away the priesthood from his brother Onias, and afterwards Menelaus did the like by him. Or else f...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Daniel 8:12 transgression H6588 army H6635 given H5414 (H8735) daily H8548 cast H7993 truth H571 down H7993 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Yes it magnified itself, even to the prince of the host, and it took away from him what is done continually (religious worship including the offerings and sacrifices), and the place of his sanctuary...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    DAILY SACRIFICE Compare (Daniel 9:27) where the Beast comes into view:...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The ram and rough goat vision, and its interpretation. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Gabriel, Daniel, Belshazzar, anti-Christ. CONCLUSION: Out from the kingdoms of the last days a king of fierc...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Daniel 8:2. _At Shushan in the palace._ Some think that Daniel was now ambassador at the Persian court. The _Ulai_ or Eulæus, is a great and navigable river which watered Ecbatana, capital of Media, a...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns._ THE WORLD-POWERS AND ISRAEL A glance at the particulars in this vision is enough to satisfy...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _HOMILETICS_ SECT. XXVIII.—ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES, OR THE SYRIAN LITTLE HORN (Chap. Daniel 8:1) This chapter presents to us another vision of Daniel vouchsafed to him in the reign of Belshazzar, but two...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION DANIEL 8:1 THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT This chapter marks the change from Aramaic to_ _Hebrew. The character of the chapter is like that which immediately precedes it. It consists, like it, o...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now two years later: In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even as unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first (Daniel 8:1). A similar type...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 23:9; 2 Thessalonians 2:10; Daniel 11:31; Daniel 11:28;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    By reason of transgression — Both the transgression of the priests, and of the people....

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