Daniel 8:16

between Ulai This singular expression can, it seems, mean only - between(the banks of) Ulai" (Daniel 8:2): the voice seemed to come to Daniel from above the waters of the river (cf. Daniel 12:6-7).

Gabriel mentioned also in Daniel 9:21 as explaining to Daniel Jeremiah's prophecy of the 70 years, and in Luke 1:19; Luke 1:26, as foretelling the birth of John the Baptist to Zacharias, and acting as the angel of the Annunciation to Mary. Gabriel is also often mentioned in non-canonical Jewish writings. In Enoch ix. 1 and xx. 7, he is one of the four (or seven) principal angels or -archangels" (see their names on Daniel 10:13); in xl. 3 7, 9, he is one of the four -presences" (Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, and Phanuel; so liv. 6, lxxi. 8, 9, 13), who bless, or make intercession, or ward off the accusing -Satans," before God (comp. Luke 1:19, -I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God"); in Daniel 10:9 he is commissioned to destroy the wicked giants. Gabriel is also mentioned not unfrequently in the later (post-Christian) Jewish literature (Weber, System der altsynag. Theologie, pp. 162, 163 4, 167 8, 306): so, for instance, in the Targ. of Pseudo-Jon. on Genesis 37:15, he is the -man" who shews Joseph the way to his brethren, and in the Targ. on Job 25:2 he is said to stand on God's left hand, while Michael is at His right. See, further, on Daniel 10:13.