Angels-Executioners*
Matthew 13:41-42; Genesis 19:1, 12-13; Psalms 78:42-43, 49; 2 Kings 19:35; Acts 12:21-23; 2 Thessalonians 1:6-8; Revelation 20:1-2| New World Translation© |
| Matthew 13 |
| (41-42) The Son of man will send forth his angels, and they will collect out from his kingdom all things that cause stumbling and persons who are doing lawlessness, 42and they will pitch them into the fiery furnace. There is where [their] weeping and the gnashing of [their] teeth will be. |
| Genesis 19 |
| (1) Now the two angels arrived at Sod´om by evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sod´om. When Lot caught sight of them, then he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the earth. |
| (12-13) Then the men said to Lot: “Do you have anyone else here? Son-in-law and your sons and your daughters and all who are yours in the city, bring out of the place! 13For we are bringing this place to ruin, because the outcry against them has grown loud before Jehovah, so that Jehovah sent us to bring the city to ruin.” |
| Psalms 78 |
| (42-43) They did not remember his hand, The day that he redeemed them from the adversary, 43How he put his signs in Egypt itself And his miracles in the field of Zo´an; |
| (49) He went sending upon them his burning anger, Fury and denunciation and distress, Deputations of angels bringing calamity. |
| 2 Kings 19 |
| (35) And it came about on that night that the angel of Jehovah proceeded to go out and strike down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the As·syr´i·ans. When people rose up early in the morning, why, there all of them were dead carcasses. |
| Acts 12 |
| (21-23) But on a set day Herod clothed himself with royal raiment and sat down upon the judgment seat and began giving them a public address. 22In turn the assembled people began shouting: “A god’s voice, and not a man’s!” 23Instantly the angel of Jehovah struck him, because he did not give the glory to God; and he became eaten up with worms and expired. |
| 2 Thessalonians 1 |
| (6-8) This takes into account that it is righteous on God’s part to repay tribulation to those who make tribulation for YOU, 7but, to YOU who suffer tribulation, relief along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels 8in a flaming fire, as he brings vengeance upon those who do not know God and those who do not obey the good news about our Lord Jesus. |
| Revelation 20 |
| (1-2) And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven with the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2And he seized the dragon, the original serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. |
| New World Translation© |
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Citations consist of 17 unique verses from 7 Books.