similar in content, in vv. 12f*. Some background needs to be furnished for this: Helel, son of Shachar, was a powerfully valiant warrior, who had the audacity, in his arrogance, to place himself on an equal level with Elyon. He wanted to ascend, on the heights of the clouds, into heaven, higher than all the other stars of God, on the mountain of assembly in the far north, so that he could take the throne as king over the universe. But the final end of this sacrilegious grasping for the stars was