Charles Ellicott Commentary Daniel 8:12

"And the host was given over [to it] together with the continual [burnt-offering] through transgression; and it cast down truth to the ground, and it did [its pleasure] and prospered." — Daniel 8:12 (ASV)

A host ...—The host is apparently the same as that which is mentioned in Daniel 8:10, and means some of the Jewish people. It is known that some of them lapsed under the persecutions of Antiochus, and joined in his idolatrous rites. These apostates were given into his hand, and on account of their apostasy the daily sacrifice also was taken away. (Compare to Daniel 8:13.)

The truth — i.e., the word of God, as appears from 1 Maccabees 1:43-52; 1 Maccabees 1:56; 1 Maccabees 1:60.