So it’s Passover. The Angel of Death came and killed a bunch of people.
Does the Angel of Death show up anywhere else in the Bible besides the Passover story? Do we know anything more about the Angel of Death from apocryphal or secondary sources?
For a quick-n-Easy cite, here’s what Wikipedia has to say:
Destroying angel (Bible)
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.”
In the Hebrew Bible, the destroying angel (Hebrew: מַלְאָך הַמַשְׁחִית, malʾāḵ hamašḥīṯ), also known as mashḥit (מַשְׁחִית mašḥīṯ, 'destroyer'; plural: מַשְׁחִיתִים, mašḥīṯīm, 'spoilers, ravagers'), is an entity sent out by God on several occasions to deal with numerous peoples.
These angels (mal’āḵīm) are also variously referred to as memitim (מְמִיתִים, 'executioners, slayers'), or, when used singularly, as the Angel of the Lord. The latter is found in Job 33:22, as well as in Proverbs 16:14 i...
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