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Summary
- Satan has no daughter in the Bible — no son, wife or family of any kind — and Scripture says almost nothing about his origin.
- Luke 10:18, Revelation 12:9 and Jude 6 are close to the whole of it. The name is a title, the accuser, describing what he does.
- Lilith is not in the Bible. The Hebrew word appears once among desert creatures in a ruined land (Isaiah 34:14); the legend is later folklore, principally the satirical Alphabet of Ben Sira.
- “You belong to your father, the devil” (John 8:44) is an argument about resemblance, not descent. 1 John 3:10 makes the criterion doing what is right.
- The writers knew the detailed angelology of works like 1 Enoch and declined to use it. James 4:7 asks for resistance, not knowledge.
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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Job 1-2; Isaiah 34:14; Luke 10:18; John 8:39-44; Jude 6; James 4:7; Revelation 12:9; 1 John 3:10). The single occurrence of Hebrew lilith at Isaiah 34:14 and its uncertain rendering are noted in most study Bibles; the developed Lilith legend derives from the medieval Alphabet of Ben Sira. Ranked demon hierarchies come from early modern demonology, notably Peter Binsfeld’s 1589 treatise.
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