27 Bible Verses about Messenger

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Proverbs 13:17

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.

Proverbs 25:13

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.

Genesis 32:3

Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

Numbers 20:14

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:

Judges 6:35

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.

1 Samuel 23:27

But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come; for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!"

2 Samuel 11:22

So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.

2 Samuel 15:13

A messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom."

1 Kings 19:2

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!"

1 Kings 22:13

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."

2 Kings 1:3

But the angel of Yahweh 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?

2 Kings 5:10

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."

2 Kings 6:32

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?"

Job 1:14

that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

Isaiah 37:9

He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He has come out to fight against you." When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

Jeremiah 51:31

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:

Daniel 3:4

Then the herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,

Philippians 2:25

But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need;

Numbers 16:28

Moses said, "Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of my own mind.

Deuteronomy 18:18

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.

Judges 6:8

that Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel: and he said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;

2 Samuel 12:25

and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh's sake.

1 Kings 16:7

Moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of Yahweh against Baasha, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.

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Christ » Mediator » Messenger

Matthew 21:37

But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

John 8:42

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 haven't come of myself, but he sent me.

Messenger » Figurative

Malachi 3:1

"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 Yahweh of Armies.

Mark 1:2

As it is written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.

Malachi 4:5-6

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh 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."

Matthew 11:10

For this is he, of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'

More verses: Haggai 1:13 Luke 7:27

Messenger » Figurative » Of satan

2 Corinthians 12:7

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

Zechariah 7:2

The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh's favor,

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Angels, as God's messengers

Isaiah 40:3-5

The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

Divine Messenger

Daniel 4:17

The 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 whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.

Messengers Sent Out

2 Samuel 3:12

Abner 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."

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