Bible Verses

I grant to him and his descendants that they will be my priests forever because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.”

Therefore, tell him that I am making a Covenant of friendship with him.

 “Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned away my anger’s blows from the sons of Israel because he was zealous for me; he has defended my honor among you. Because of this, I did not feel zealous for my honor, and I would have destroyed the people of Israel.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

but those who had already died numbered 24,000.

and followed the Israelites into the tent. There, he drove the spear through both the man and the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was checked;

When Phinehas, a son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand,

Then a man, an Israelite, came back bringing a Midianite woman to his family in the view of Moses and the Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

So Moses told the Israelite judges: “Each of you shall slay any of your men who have joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor.”

He said to Moses: “Take all the leaders of these people and hang them in broad daylight before the Lord, so that his fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”