Phinehas

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

High priest

• Exodus 6:25 Aaron’s son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the Levite families by their clans.
• 1 Chronicles 6:4 Eleazar was the father of Phinehas, Phinehas was the father of Abishua,
• 1 Chronicles 6:50 These were the descendants of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

Religious zeal of, in killing the Israelitish woman who had committed abomination

• Numbers 25:7–15 On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand, followed the Israelite into the tent, and drove the spear through both of them— through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites…
• Psalm 106:30 But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

Chief of the Korahite Levites

• 1 Chronicles 9:19–20 Shallum son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives from the Korahites were assigned to guard the thresholds of the Tent, just as their fathers had been assigned to guard the entrance to the dwelling of the LORD. In earlier times Phinehas son of Eleazar had been in charge…

Sent to sound the trumpets in the battle with the Midianites

• Numbers 31:6 And Moses sent the thousand from each tribe into battle, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who took with him the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.

Sent, with other princes of the Israelites west of the Jordan River to inquire of the Israelites on the east of the Jordan River what the monument they had erected signified

• Joshua 22:13–32 The Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the land of Gilead, to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. With him they sent ten chiefs — one family leader from each tribe of Israel, each the head of a family among the clans of Israel. They went to the Reubenites…

Inheritance allotted to

• Joshua 24:33 Eleazar son of Aaron also died, and they buried him at Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.

Mediator in behalf of the people

• Judges 20:28 and Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, served before it.) The Israelites asked, “Should we again go out to battle against our brothers the Benjamites, or should we stop?” The LORD answered, “Fight, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”