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Phinehas

Phinehas

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Phinehas, son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron, was a zealous priest known for his decisive action against idolatry, which stopped a plague among the Israelites and secured a covenant of peace for his descendants.

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Where Phinehas appears

24 verses across 8 books.

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Verses mentioning Phinehas

  • 1Chr 6:4 — Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,
  • 1Chr 6:50 — And these are the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
  • 1Chr 9:20 — And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, and the LORD was with him.
  • 1Sam 1:3 — And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.
  • 1Sam 2:34 — And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.
  • 1Sam 4:4 — So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were t
  • 1Sam 4:11 — And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
  • 1Sam 4:17 — And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the a
  • 1Sam 4:19 — And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she b
  • 1Sam 14:3 — And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD’s priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
  • Exod 6:25 — And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.
  • Ezra 7:5 — The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:
  • Ezra 8:2 — Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.
  • Ezra 8:33 — Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and
  • Josh 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,
  • Josh 22:30 — And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the
  • Josh 22:31 — And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because ye hav
  • Josh 22:32 — And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of
  • Josh 24:33 — And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.
  • Judg 20:28 — And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LO
  • Num 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;
  • Num 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 Israe
  • Num 31:6 — And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
  • Ps 106:30 — Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
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The Church Fathers on Phinehas

Patristic commentary on the Scriptures that name Phinehas.

Tell me this. Will you still dare to call Jesus an imposter and lawbreaker? Will you not instead go off and bury yourselves somewhere, when you look the facts in the face, since their truth is so obvious? If Jesus were an imposter and lawbreaker, as you say he was, you should have been held in high honor for putting him to death.…

We said above that by this number strong men are designated in good work, who are reported to be with the king: because through their zeal for good work, they are in harmony with the life of their teacher. But the preachers of the Church have under them not only those who do great things, but also fellow ministers of the word who teach…

Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, etc. The Synagogue, entrusted with the children of the legal priesthood to govern, indeed received the seed of the word from the teachers and was near to producing the fruit of faith, which it had long sought, at the Lord's preaching. However, she too, after the fall of the…

And the two sons of Eli were with the ark of the covenant of the Lord, etc. The sons of Eli, by both name and merit, signify that the people not believing in Christ in the flesh was partly aided by the fault of the priests of that time. Indeed, Ophni means 'unshod,' as stated above; Phinehas means 'dumb mouth.' The former signifies…

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32 passages from 6 historic works cite verses that mention Phinehas.