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Genesis 16:13 (Listen)

13 So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing,”1 for she said, k“Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.”2

Footnotes

[1] 16:13 Or You are a God who sees me
[2] 16:13 Hebrew Have I really seen him here who sees me? or Would I have looked here for the one who sees me?

Exodus 3:2-6 (Listen)

xAnd ythe angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, zGod called to him aout of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then he said, “Do not come near; btake your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” And he said, c“I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for dhe was afraid to look at God.

Exodus 23:20-22 (Listen)

Conquest of Canaan Promised

20 y“Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. 21 Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; zdo not rebel against him, afor he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.

22 “But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then bI will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

Numbers 22:35 (Listen)

35 And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, ebut speak only the word that I tell you.” So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.

Numbers 22:38 (Listen)

38 Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you! Have I now any power of my own to speak anything? hThe word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak.”

Judges 2:1-2 (Listen)

Israel's Disobedience

Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to jBochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, k‘I will never break my covenant with you, land you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; myou shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?

Judges 6:11 (Listen)

The Call of Gideon

11 Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash vthe Abiezrite, while his son wGideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

Judges 6:14 (Listen)

14 And the Lord1 turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; bdo not I send you?”

Footnotes

[1] 6:14 Septuagint the angel of the Lord; also verse 16