Later, in II Kings 19:35, the angel kills 185,000 Assyrian soldiers. In the Book of Enoch, angels of punishment and destruction belong to a group of angels called satans with Satan as their leader.
Azrael (/ˈæzriəl/; Hebrew: עֲזַרְאֵל, romanized: ʿǍzarʾēl, 'God has helped'; Arabic: عزرائيل, romanized: ʿAzrāʾīl or ʿIzrāʾīl) is the angel of death in some Abrahamic religions, namely Islam, Christian popular culture and some traditions of Judaism.
According to Isaiah, an angel then killed 185,000 Assyrian troops overnight.
The heartless Pharaoh still refused to free the Israelite slaves. So God, brought about one last plague, which was so terrible that it was certain to persuade Pharaoh to let his slaves go. That night, God sent the angel of death to kill the firstborn sons of the Egyptians.
Due to the association with beauty, Jophiel is one of very few angels to be sometimes portrayed as female. However, many angels have no canonical gender, and are most commonly referred to by male pronouns.
The Word became flesh some 2,000 years ago as the Son of God, Jesus Christ (verse 14). After Jesus' human life and death, He was resurrected to divine spirit existence as “the firstborn from the dead” and “firstborn among many brethren” (Colossians 1:18.
Mary Magdalene is peering into the empty tomb of Jesus and sees two angels.
James was the first of the 12 to be put to death. King Herod had him killed by the sword in Jerusalem (Acts 12). There are some non-biblical traditions about James that I will address later.
Herod ruled Judea from 37 BC. The Bible says he initiated a murder of all the infants in Bethlehem in an attempt to get rid of the baby Jesus.
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 Hebrews's enemies". Later, in II Kings 19:35, the angel kills 185,000 Assyrian soldiers.
After God had completed His purpose for Israel He would punish Assyria for their pride and actions taken against His chosen nation. Assyria had boasted that they were acting independently.
Jacob, son of Isaac and brother of Esau, wrestled with an angel all through one night on the bank of the Jabbok.
According to the Book of Enoch, Azazel (here spelled 'ăzā'zyēl) was one of the chief Grigori, a group of fallen angels who married women.
Mengele. Mengele was the cruel doctor who presided over the selection of arrivals at Auschwitz/Birkenau. Known as the “Angel of Death,” Mengele's words sentenced countless prisoners to death in the gas chambers. He also directed horrific experiments on human subjects at the camp.
I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. "Holding" is interpreted as "holding back" the winds.
His execution was ordered by the Roman Emperor Nero, who blamed the city's Christians for a terrible fire that had ravaged Rome. Peter requested to be crucified upside down, as he felt unworthy to die in the same manner as Christ.
Cain, in the Bible (Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament), firstborn son of Adam and Eve who murdered his brother Abel (Genesis 4:1–16).
He may have stood about 5-ft. -5-in. (166 cm) tall, the average man's height at the time.
Giles, the angel who cast Adam and Eve out of Paradise was said to be Jophiel.
Hadarniel (or Hadrianiel among other variant spellings), whose name means "majesty [or greatness] of God", is an angel in Jewish Angelology assigned as gatekeeper at the second gate in heaven.
In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve meet the Angel Raphael and the angel warns them not to disobey God's commands and that Satan is plotting to bring about the fall.
A “posthumous birth” is the birth of a child after the death of a biological parent. Posthumous births have occurred since antiquity, often when a male partner died from illness, accident or at war after conception and pregnancy had been achieved but before the birth occurred.
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines maternal death as the death of a pregnant mother due to complications related to pregnancy, underlying conditions worsened by the pregnancy or management of these conditions. This can occur either while they are pregnant or within six weeks of resolution of the pregnancy.
Six times in scripture the Lord Jesus is declared to be the first-born of God (Romans 8:29; Colossians 1:15, 18; Hebrews 1:6; 12:23; Revelation 1:5). These passages declare the preexistence, the sovereignty, and the redemption that Christ offers.