The LORD Sends Evil Angels

Question 1

Ecclesiasticus 39:28-30

Answer 1

There be spirits that are created for vengeance, which in their fury lay on sore strokes; in the time of destruction they pour out their force, and appease the wrath of him that made them.

Fire, and hail, and famine, and death, all these were created for vengeance;

Teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions, serpents, and the sword punishing the wicked to destruction.

Question 2

1 Kings 22:21-23

Answer 2

And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.

And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.

Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.

Question 3

2 Chronicles 18:20-22

Answer 3

Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?

And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.

Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.

Question 4

Judges 9:23

Answer 4

Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:

Question 5

1 Samuel 16:14

Answer 5

But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

Question 6

Isaiah 19:14

Answer 6

The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

Question 7

Psalms 78:49

Answer 7

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

Question 8

Proverbs 17:11

Answer 8

An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

Question 9

2 Samuel 24:15-17

Answer 9

So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.

And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house.

Question 10

2 Chronicles 21:14-15

Answer 10

Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:

And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

Question 11

Micah 1:12

Answer 11

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.