Grandson of Aaron and a zealous priest. When an Israelite flagrantly brought a Midianite woman into the camp during a plague, Phinehas drove a spear through them both and the plague was halted. God granted him and his descendants a lasting covenant of priesthood.
Relationships
FatherEleazarFather, priest after Aaron, buried in the hill of Phinehas in Ephraim
Key Scripture AppearancesKJV
Numbers 25:7
And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;Numbers 25:7, KJV
Numbers 25:11
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.Numbers 25:11, KJV
Joshua 22:13
And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,Joshua 22:13, KJV
Psalms 106:30
Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.Psalms 106:30, KJV
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