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MICHAEL

(Heb. mîḵāʾēl)

1. An Asherite whose son Sethur was one of the 12 spies sent to Canaan (Num. 13:13).

2. A Gadite who settled in Bashan (1 Chr. 5:13).

3. An ancestor of the Gadite Abihail (1 Chr. 5:14).

4. A Levite, the great-grandfather of Asaph (1 Chr. 6:40[MT 25]).

5. A descendant of Uzzi of the tribe of Issachar (1 Chr. 7:3).

6. One of the sons of Beraiah; head of a Benjamite ancestral house who lived in Jerusalem (1 Chr. 8:16).

7. A mighty warrior from the tribe of Manasseh who deserted Saul and joined David’s ranks at Ziklag, becoming a commander (1 Chr. 12:20).

8. The father of Omri, chief officer of Issachar at the time of David (1 Chr. 27:18).

9. One of King Jehoshaphat’s sons who was assassinated when his older brother Jehoram ascended the throne (2 Chr. 21:2, 4).

10. A man whose son, Zebadiah, supervised 80 returnees from Babylonian exile with Ezra, during the reign of Artaxerxes (Ezra 8:8).

11. A celestial prince or archangel, mentioned by name only in Daniel. He is “one of the chief princes” (Dan. 10:13; cf. v. 21), “the great prince who stands up” (12:1), and possibly the “prince of the host” (8:11). In the NT he is the “archangel” who disputed with the devil over the body of Moses (Jude 9) and the commander of the heavenly armies that eradicated Satan and his angels from heaven after they rebelled against God (Rev. 12:7). In each of these apocalyptic passages Michael is the leader of God’s forces, in direct controversy with Satan and always victorious over him.

Jewish angelology in apocalyptic writings describes Michael as “general” and “chief captain” (2 En. 22:6; 33:10), the first of “four presences that stand before God” (1 En. 9:1; 40:9; 1QM 9:14-15). He is characterized as “merciful, charitable, and long-suffering” (1 En. 40:9; 68:2, 3), a “mediator and intercessor” (Asc. Isa. 9:23), and an intermediary between God and Moses at the time when the law was given at Sinai (cf. Jub. 1:27; 2:1; Acts 7:38). Tg. Jonathan on Deut. 34:6 claims that Michael and his angels buried Moses. As the true representative of God, identified with the “angel of Yahweh,” Michael withstood Satan’s accusations and vindicated Israel at the heavenly tribunal.

Kenneth D. Mulac

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MICHAEL

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)