Numbers 25:7-11

Baal Worship at Peor

7 n When Phinehas o the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand 8 and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped. 9 Nevertheless, p those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

The Zeal of Phinehas

10 And the Lord said to Moses, 11 "Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he q was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in r my jealousy.

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 106:30
    Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stayed.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 6:25
    Eleazar, Aaron's son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites by their clans.
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:3
    Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor.
    1 Corinthians 10:8
    We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.
  4. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 11:2
    For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:16
    They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;...
    Deuteronomy 32:21
    They have made me jealous with what is no god; ...
    1 Kings 14:22
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    Psalms 78:58
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    Zephaniah 1:18
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    Zephaniah 3:8
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    1 Corinthians 10:22
    Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we s...
    Exodus 20:5
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