Lexicon :: Strong's H4397 - mal'āḵ

The angel of the LORD found her by a spring in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.

The angel of the LORD said to her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her authority.”

The two angels entered Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in Sodom’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them. He bowed with his face to the ground

At daybreak the angels urged Lot on: “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment[fn] of the city.”

God heard the boy crying, and the[fn] angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What’s wrong, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the boy crying from the place where he is.

But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham! ”

He replied, “Here I am.”

Then the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven

“The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘I will give this land to your offspring’[fn] ​— ​he will send his angel before you, and you can take a wife for my son from there.

“He said to me, ‘The LORD before whom I have walked will send his angel with you and make your journey a success, and you will take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father’s family.

And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground with its top reaching the sky, and God’s angels were going up and down on it.

“In that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob! ’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

Jacob went on his way, and God’s angels met him.

Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the territory of Edom.

When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you ​— ​and he has four hundred men with him.”

the angel who has redeemed me from all harm —

may he bless these boys.

And may they be called by my name

and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac,

and may they grow to be numerous within the land.

Then the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed.

Then the angel of God, who was going in front of the Israelite forces, moved and went behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from in front of them and stood behind them.

“I am going to send an angel before you to protect you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared.

“For my angel will go before you and bring you to the land of the Amorites, Hethites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.

“Now go, lead the people to the place I told you about; see, my angel will go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will hold them accountable for their sin.”

“I will send an angel ahead of you and will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hethites, Perizzites,[fn] Hivites, and Jebusites.

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says, ‘You know all the hardships that have overtaken us.

“When we cried out to the LORD, he heard our plea,[fn] and sent an angel,[fn] and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the border of your territory.

Israel sent messengers to say to King Sihon of the Amorites,

he sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates in the land of his people.[fn][fn] Balak said to him, “Look, a people has come out of Egypt; they cover the surface of the land and are living right across from me.

But God was incensed that Balaam was going, and the angel of the LORD took his stand on the path to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

Then the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the path with a drawn sword in his hand. Balaam knelt low and bowed in worship on his face.

Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you were standing in the path to confront me. And now, if it is evil in your sight, I will go back.”

Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I previously tell the messengers you sent me:

“So I sent messengers with an offer of peace to King Sihon of Heshbon from the Wilderness of Kedemoth, saying,

“But the city and everything in it are set apart to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone with her in the house will live, because she hid the messengers we sent.

However, Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, and all who belonged to her, because she hid the messengers Joshua had sent to spy on Jericho, and she still lives in Israel today.

So Joshua sent messengers who ran to the tent, and there was the cloak, concealed in his tent, with the silver underneath.

The angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you out of Egypt and led you into the land I had promised to your ancestors. I also said: I will never break my covenant with you.

When the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.

“Curse Meroz,” says the angel of the LORD,

“Bitterly curse her inhabitants,

for they did not come to help the LORD,

to help the LORD with the warriors.”

The angel of the LORD came, and he sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the winepress in order to hide it from the Midianites.

The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat with the unleavened bread, put it on this stone, and pour the broth on it.” So he did that.