2 Samuel 24:16

24:16 When the angel ¹  extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented from his judgment. ²  He told the angel who was killing the people, “That’s enough! Stop now!” ³  (Now the Lord’s angel was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.)

Psalms 18:50

18:50 He ⁴  gives his chosen king magnificent victories; ⁵ 

he is faithful ⁶  to his chosen ruler, ⁷ 

to David and his descendants ⁸  forever.” ⁹ 

Daniel 3:28

3:28 Nebuchadnezzar exclaimed, ¹⁰  “Praised be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent forth his angel ¹¹  and has rescued his servants who trusted in him, ignoring ¹²  the edict of the king and giving up their bodies rather than ¹³  serve or pay homage to any god other than their God!

Daniel 6:22

6:22 My God sent his angel and closed the lions’ mouths so that they have not harmed me, because I was found to be innocent before him. Nor have I done any harm to you, O king.”

Matthew 13:49-50

13:49 It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteous 13:50 and throw them into the fiery furnace, ¹⁴  where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Acts 12:23

12:23 Immediately an angel of the Lord ¹⁵  struck ¹⁶  Herod ¹⁷  down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died. ¹⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “messenger.”

² tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”

³ tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”

⁴ tn Or “the one who.”

⁵ tn Heb “magnifies the victories of his king.” “His king” refers to the psalmist, the Davidic king whom God has chosen to rule Israel.

⁶ tn Heb “[the one who] does loyalty.”

⁷ tn Heb “his anointed [one],” i.e., the psalmist/Davidic king. See Ps 2:2.

⁸ tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”

⁹ sn If David is the author of the psalm (see the superscription), then he here anticipates that God will continue to demonstrate loyalty to his descendants who succeed him. If the author is a later Davidic king, then he views the divine favor he has experienced as the outworking of God’s faithful promises to David his ancestor.

¹⁰ tn Aram “answered and said.”

¹¹ sn The king identifies the “son of the gods” (v. 25) as an angel. Comparable Hebrew expressions are used elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible for the members of God’s angelic assembly (see Gen 6:2, 4; Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7; Pss 29:1; 89:6). An angel later comes to rescue Daniel from the lions (Dan 6:22).

¹² tn Aram “they changed” or “violated.”

¹³ tn Aram “so that they might not.”

¹⁴ sn An allusion to Dan 3:6.

¹⁵ tn Or “the angel of the Lord.” See the note on the word “Lord” in 5:19.

¹⁶ sn On being struck…down by an angel, see Acts 23:3; 1 Sam 25:28; 2 Sam 12:15; 2 Kgs 19:35; 2 Chr 13:20; 2 Macc 9:5.

¹⁷ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Herod) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁸ sn He was eaten by worms and died. Josephus, Ant. 19.8.2 (19.343-352), states that Herod Agrippa I died at Caesarea in a.d. 44. The account by Josephus, while not identical to Luke’s account, is similar in many respects: On the second day of a festival, Herod Agrippa appeared in the theater with a robe made of silver. When it sparkled in the sun, the people cried out flatteries and declared him to be a god. The king, carried away by the flattery, saw an owl (an omen of death) sitting on a nearby rope, and immediately was struck with severe stomach pains. He was carried off to his house and died five days later. The two accounts can be reconciled without difficulty, since while Luke states that Herod was immediately struck down by an angel, his death could have come several days later. The mention of worms with death adds a humiliating note to the scene. The formerly powerful ruler had been thoroughly reduced to nothing (cf. Jdt 16:17; 2 Macc 9:9; cf. also Josephus, Ant. 17.6.5 [17.168-170], which details the sickness which led to Herod the Great’s death).