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Psalm 106:30
Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.
28They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
29Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.
30Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.
31That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.
32They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;
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Phinehas’s lethal act of judgment stops a plague amid Israel’s worship of Baal Peor, a stark account where violence and the preservation of life meet.
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Numbers 25:6–8Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the …Numbers describes the congregation weeping when the Israelite brought a Midianite woman among them, setting the scene for Phinehas’s intervention.
Numbers 25:14–15Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the …Numbers names Zimri as the slain Israelite in the episode Psalm 106 recalls through Phinehas’s judgment.
Joshua 7:12Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for …Both concern judgment within Israel, though Joshua describes defeat and God’s withdrawn presence rather than a plague.
1 Kings 18:40–41Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!” They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed …Elijah kills the prophets of Baal, while Phinehas executes judgment after Israel joins itself to Baal Peor.
Deuteronomy 13:9–11but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.Both passages describe lethal judgment within Israel; Deuteronomy commands participation, while Psalm 106 recounts Phinehas’s action.
Jonah 1:12–15He said to them, “Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you.”Jonah proposes an action to end a storm; Psalm 106 records an action that ended a plague.
Numbers 16:48He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.Both passages describe someone standing amid a deadly crisis, followed by the stopping of a plague.
Deuteronomy 13:15–17you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, with all that is therein and its livestock, with the …Deuteronomy commands a city’s destruction by the sword; Psalm 106 recounts lethal judgment on a smaller scale.
Numbers 25:7When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.Numbers names Phinehas and describes him rising with a spear; Psalm 106 recounts his judgment and the plague’s end.
2 Samuel 24:21Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be …David seeks to build an altar so a plague will stop; Phinehas’s act of judgment is followed by a plague stopping.
Job 35:8Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.Job says righteousness may benefit another person; Psalm 106 recounts an act credited as righteousness that stopped a plague.
Ezekiel 11:9“I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.Judgment among God’s people connects these texts, though Ezekiel describes delivery to strangers and Psalm 106 a stopped plague.
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This account grants no permission for private violence. It records a grave moment in Israel’s history: God judged their worship of Baal Peor, and the plague came to an end.
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