Daniel 7.10b

In the vision of Daniel the entities of lesser deities may be portrayed:

אלף אלפים ישמשונה A thousand (upon) thousands were serving him

ורבו רבון קרמוהי יקמון and a myriad (upon) myriads were standing before him.

דינא יתב The court was seated.

In these Aramaic passages the members of the divine assembly are described in a poetic device; thus, the countless number of divine beings denotes a cosmic multitude of the divine assembly.

These numerous divine beings “stand” (יקומון, in v. 10b) before the “Ancient of Days” (עתיק יומין) who “sits” (יתב, in v. 9a) on “his throne” (כרסיה, in v. 9b). The Ancient of days or Yahweh is presiding over the judicial assembly. He sits on his own throne as the judge Then other divine entities are portrayed as attending the court of judgement, held by their supreme god.

Whilst the members of the divine legal “court” (דינא) “sit” (יתב, in v. 10b), other divine beings “stand” (קאמיא, in v. 16a; cf. Dan 7.16). The positions of “sitting” and “standing” explicitly as nonverbal indications, designating the rank between the higher deities and the lesser. The scene of the divine assembly is pictured very similarly to that of 1 Kgs 22.19. Thus, numberless servant deities of Yahweh in the text represent clearly the fact that they are the lesser deities of Yahweh.