“for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.” The Hebrew word for “messenger” is malak (#04397 מַלְאָךְ), and it is also translated “angel” many times in the Old Testament because “angels” were messengers of God. The fact that a “messenger” could be a human or a spirit messenger, an angel, can cause problems for translators because in some passages we cannot tell whether the “messenger” is a human being or a spirit being. A good example is Judges 2:1, where the “messenger” who spoke to Israel could have been an angel or could have been a human being.