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Many people today think of Satan as a little red demon with a pointy tail and a pitchfork—but this vision of the devil developed over many centuries and would be foreign to the writers of the Old Testament, where this figure makes his first appearances. The earliest texts that mention the Satan—it is always “the Satan” in the Old Testament—portray him as an agent of Yahweh, serving as an...

I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should today become my satan? Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day?” (19:23 [Eng. 22]).11 As in the passages considered above, the satan in this passage is someone who would attack and kill another person. Second Samuel 19 differs from the passages considered above in that this attack is supposed (at least by Abishai) to be justified by Shimei’s crime. Abishai suggests that Shimei be punished capitally for his crime, so the satan in this
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