27 Bible Verses about Messenger
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A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.
As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the soul of his masters.
Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us:
He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they also were gathered together after him: and he sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.
But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come; for the Philistines have made a raid on the land."
So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
A messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom."
Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time."
The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good."
But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and tell them, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron?
Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean."
But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him?"
that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He has come out to fight against you." When he heard it, he returned and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:
Then the herald cried aloud, "To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,
But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need;
Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.
I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am. Send me."
I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
that the LORD sent a prophet to the children of Israel, and he said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he named him Jedidiah, for the LORD's sake.
Moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.
From Thematic Bible
Christ » Mediator » Messenger
We must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I have not come of myself, but he sent me.
Messenger » Figurative
"Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes." says the LORD of hosts.
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Look, I send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.
For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.
This is the one of whom it is written, 'Look, I send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.'
Messenger » Figurative » Of satan
By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
Regem-melech » A captive » Messenger
The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat the LORD's favor,
Topics on Messenger
Angels, as God's messengers
Isaiah 40:3-5The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of the LORD in the wilderness. Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
Divine Messenger
Daniel 4:17The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whoever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.
Messengers Sent Out
2 Samuel 3:12Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, "Whose is the land?" and saying, "Make your alliance with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you, to bring all Israel around to you."