Luke Chapter 2 verse 13 Holy Bible
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
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And suddenly there was with the angel a great band of spirits from heaven, giving praise to God, and saying,
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And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying,
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And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
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Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
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And suddenly there came with the messenger a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying,
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Luke 2 : 13 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - With the angel a multitude of the heavenly host. "The troop of angels issues forth from the depths of that invisible world which surrounds us on every side" (Godet). One of the glorious titles by which the eternal King was known among the chosen people was "Lord of sabaoth," equivalent to "Lord of hosts." In several passages of the Scriptures is the enormous multitude of these heavenly beings noticed; for instance, Psalm 68:17, where the Hebrew is much more expressive than the English rendering; Daniel 7:10, "Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him" (see, too, the Targum of Palestine on Deuteronomy 33, "And with him ten thousand times ten thousand holy angels;" and "The crown of the Law is his [Moses'], because he brought it from the heavens above, when there was revealed to him the glory of the Lord's Shechinah, with two thousand myriads of angels, and forty and two thousand chariots of fire," etc.).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) A multitude of the heavenly host.--The phrase, or its equivalent, "the host of heaven," is common in the later books of the Old Testament, but is there used as including the visible "hosts" of sun, moon, and stars, which were worshipped by Israel (Jeremiah 8:2; Jeremiah 19:13; 2Chronicles 33:3). In this sense we find it in St. Stephen's speech (Acts 7:42). Here it is obviously used of the angels of God as forming the armies of the great King. The great name of the Lord of Hosts, the Lord of Sabaoth, was probably intended to include both the seen and the unseen hosts, the stars in the firmament, and the angels in heaven. Its use in the New Testament is confined to these two passages. The Hebrew word is found, in Old Testament quotations, in Romans 9:29, James 5:4. . . .
