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==Hebrew Bible== |
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The [[Hebrew Bible]] includes the Destroyer (''ha-mashḥit'') who at the [[Passover]] in [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]] killed the firstborn of Egypt. Later a "destroying angel" (''mal'ak ha-mashḥit'') kills many of the inhabitants of Jerusalem in 2 Samuel 24:15. While in the parallel passage in [[I Chronicles]] 21:15 the same "angel of the Lord" is seen by David to stand "between the earth and the heaven, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out against Jerusalem." Later the [[angel of the Lord]] kills 185,000 men of [[Sennacherib]]'s Assyrian army, thereby saving [[Hezekiah]]'s [[Jerusalem]] in [[II Kings]] 19:35. A different term for "destroyer" (''memitim'') is found in Job 33:22.<ref>[http:// |
The [[Hebrew Bible]] includes the Destroyer (''ha-mashḥit'') who at the [[Passover]] in [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]] killed the firstborn of Egypt. Later a "destroying angel" (''mal'ak ha-mashḥit'') kills many of the inhabitants of Jerusalem in 2 Samuel 24:15. While in the parallel passage in [[I Chronicles]] 21:15 the same "angel of the Lord" is seen by David to stand "between the earth and the heaven, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out against Jerusalem." Later the [[angel of the Lord]] kills 185,000 men of [[Sennacherib]]'s Assyrian army, thereby saving [[Hezekiah]]'s [[Jerusalem]] in [[II Kings]] 19:35. A different term for "destroyer" (''memitim'') is found in Job 33:22.<ref>[http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=178&letter=D#ixzz1ZFairxzi Jewish Encyclopedia Angel of Death]</ref> |
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Revision as of 10:32, 29 October 2014
The Hebrew Bible, and then Christian and later Jewish sources, make frequent mention of one or more destroying angels, which in Proverbs 16:14 are termed the "angels of death" (malake ha-mawet) and also archangels of death "The wrath of a king [is as] messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it."
Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible includes the Destroyer (ha-mashḥit) who at the Passover in Exodus killed the firstborn of Egypt. Later a "destroying angel" (mal'ak ha-mashḥit) kills many of the inhabitants of Jerusalem in 2 Samuel 24:15. While in the parallel passage in I Chronicles 21:15 the same "angel of the Lord" is seen by David to stand "between the earth and the heaven, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out against Jerusalem." Later the angel of the Lord kills 185,000 men of Sennacherib's Assyrian army, thereby saving Hezekiah's Jerusalem in II Kings 19:35. A different term for "destroyer" (memitim) is found in Job 33:22.[1]