“... Ugaritic regularly refers to heavenly beings as ph}r kkbm (the “congregation of the stars”75), language corresponding with rqe$b yb'k;wOk2 (“morning stars”; in parallelism with the “sons of God” in Job 38:7) and l)' yb'k;wOk (the “stars of God”; Isa. 14:13). Aside from the context of these references, each of which clearly points to personal beings, not astronomical phenomena, it is significant that in the entire ancient near eastern literary record, El is never identified with a heavenly body. Thus “the stars of El” points to created beings with divine status.76 The Hebrew Bible also uses My#$idoq: (“holy ones”) and twO)bfc; (“hosts”) for inhabitants of heaven, a term not utilized at Ugarit for the heavenly host.77 The “hosts” of Yahweh (twO)bFc; hwhy) constitutes an umbrella term which includes the variety of categories of nonhuman beings who serve God.78 ... 75 KTU 1.10:I.4. ... 78 See Psalm 103:19-21; 148:1-5. However, several passages unambiguously include divine beings among the heavenly host. See also Isaiah 24:21 (“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, [MwOrm2fb2a MwOrm2fhA )bfc;] and the kings of the earth upon the earth”) with other passages that describe divine beings that dwell in the “heights,” such as Isaiah 14:12–15. ...”