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Phinehas

Priest remembered for zeal in Numbers and later covenant language.

son of Eleazar8 Bible books15 chapters24 verse appearances

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Grandson of and son of who, while Israel is at , drives a spear through an man and a woman in the act of brazen idolatry at and so turns back the plague. For his zeal he receives a covenant of perpetual priesthood, and Psalm 106 recalls the deed as reckoned to him for righteousness. He later leads the campaign against Midian and confronts the eastern tribes over the altar they build near the in Joshua 22. His line is traced through later high priests in Chronicles and .

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