Psalm 106:28-31 Part 2 of 2

Then our ancestors joined in the worship of Baal at Peor;

    they even ate sacrifices offered to the dead!

They angered the LORD with all these things,

    so a plague broke out among them.

But Phinehas had the courage to intervene,

    and the plague was stopped.

So he has been regarded as a righteous man

    ever since that time.

 

But Phinehas had the courage to intervene, and the plague was stopped. So he has been regarded as a righteous man ever since that time.

Numbers 25:10-13  Then the LORD said to Moses, "Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest has turned my anger away from the Israelites by being as zealous among them as I was. So I stopped destroying all Israel as I had intended to do in my zealous anger. Now tell him that I am making my special covenant of peace with him. In this covenant, I give him and his descendants a permanent right to the priesthood, for in his zeal for me, his God, he purified the people of Israel, making them right with me."  (see all chapter 25) 

Numbers 31:6  Then Moses sent them out, 1,000 men from each tribe, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest led them into battle. They carried along the holy objects of the sanctuary and the trumpets for sounding the charge.  

(see all chapter 31)

Joshua 22:12-13  So the whole community of Israel gathered at Shiloh and prepared to go to war with them. First, however, they sent a delegation led by Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to talk with the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Joshua 22:17  "Was our sin at Peor not enough? To this day we are not fully cleansed of it, even after the plague that struck the entire community of the LORD."

Joshua 22:32-34  Then Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, and the other leaders left the tribes of Reuben and Gad in Gilead and returned to the land of Canaan to tell the Israelites what had happened. And all the Israelites were satisfied and praised God and spoke no more of war against Reuben and Gad.

    The people of Reuben and Gad named the altar "Witness," for they said, "It is a witness between us and them that the LORD is our God, too."  

(see all chapter 22) 

 

(parentheses are mine)

 

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