Angels - their negative work

1. Striking the Sodomites with blindness Genesis 19:11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.

2. Striking dead rebels in the wilderness in Moses' time 1 Corinthians 10:10 And do not grumble, as some of them did - and were killed by the destroying angel.

3. Willingness to slay Balaam by sword Numbers 22:31 Then the LORD opened Balaam's eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with his sword drawn. So he bowed low and fell facedown. 

4. Driving out the Canaanites Exodus 33:2 I will send an angel before you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 

5. Beginning to destroy the Israelites in David's time 1 Chronicles 21:15 And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. (See 2 Samuel 24:16)

6. Slaughtering the Assyrians 2 Kings 19:35 That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning - there were all the dead bodies! (See 2 Chronicles 32:21, Isaiah 37:36)

7. Striking Zechariah mute Luke 1:19, 20 The angel said to him, "I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news. And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time." 

8. Striking Herod dead Acts 12:23 Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

9. More generally Psalm 35:5, 6 May they be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the LORD driving them away; may their path be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them.

10. Various judgements Revelation 8;5 etc Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake. (See also Revelation 16, etc).