Angel of Yahweh
angelic sky Hebrew corroborated · 2
The Angel of Yahweh is a supernatural entity sent by Yahweh to carry out divine will, sometimes in adversarial or punitive roles. In Numbers 22:22, the Angel confronts Balaam as 'a satan against him.' In 2 Samuel 24, Yahweh sends the Angel to inflict a plague against Israel, killing 70,000 people as punishment for David's unauthorized census.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 1000 BCE
- Attested period
- -1000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in Numbers 22:22 and 2 Samuel 24; in 1 Chronicles 21:1 this entity is replaced by 'a satan' in the retelling.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- troubling spirit, Lying Spirit, bnē Elohim, Ha-Satan, Seraphim, cherubim
- aspect of
- God
- enemy of
- Belial
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (1)
encyclopedia (1)
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“the Angel of Yahweh stood in the road as a satan against him. In 2 Samuel 24 Yahweh sends the 'Angel of Yahweh' to inflict a plague against Israel for three days, killing 70,000 people”
#2239 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“the Angel of Yahweh, as we have seen, is a manifestation of God... they are specially His messengers, declaring His will and executing His commissions.”
#44082 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free