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The [[Hebrew Bible]] includes the Destroyer (מַשְׁחִית or הַמַשְׁחִית, ''mashchit'' or ''ha-mashchit'') who at the [[Passover]] in [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]] killed the firstborn of Egypt. Later a "destroying angel" (''malak ha-mashchit'' or ''mashchitim'') 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" (מְמִיתִים, ''[[memitim]]'' - "executioners") is found in Job 33:22.<ref>[http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=178&letter=D#ixzz1ZFairxzi Jewish Encyclopedia Angel of Death]</ref> |
The [[Hebrew Bible]] includes the Destroyer (מַשְׁחִית or הַמַשְׁחִית, ''mashchit'' or ''ha-mashchit'') who at the [[Passover]] in [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]] killed the firstborn of Egypt. Later a "destroying angel" (מַלְאָך הַמַשְׁחִית, ''malak ha-mashchit'' or מַשְׁחִיתִים, ''mashchitim'') 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" (מְמִיתִים, ''[[memitim]]'' - "executioners") 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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''Mashchit(h)'' was also used as an alternate name for one of the [[Hell#Judaism|seven compartments]] of [[Gehenna]].<ref>(edit.) Boustan, Ra'anan S. Reed, Annette Yoshiko. ''Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions''. Cambridge University Press, 2004.</ref> |
''Mashchit(h)'' was also used as an alternate name for one of the [[Hell#Judaism|seven compartments]] of [[Gehenna]].<ref>(edit.) Boustan, Ra'anan S. Reed, Annette Yoshiko. ''Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions''. Cambridge University Press, 2004.</ref> |
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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 (מַשְׁחִית or הַמַשְׁחִית, mashchit or ha-mashchit) who at the Passover in Exodus killed the firstborn of Egypt. Later a "destroying angel" (מַלְאָך הַמַשְׁחִית, malak ha-mashchit or מַשְׁחִיתִים, mashchitim) 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" (מְמִיתִים, memitim - "executioners") is found in Job 33:22.[1]
Mashchit(h) was also used as an alternate name for one of the seven compartments of Gehenna.[2]
References
- ^ Jewish Encyclopedia Angel of Death
- ^ (edit.) Boustan, Ra'anan S. Reed, Annette Yoshiko. Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions. Cambridge University Press, 2004.