Numeri 25:11

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling

Pinehas, de zoon van Eleazar, den zoon van Aron, den priester, heeft mijn gramschap van de kinderen Israls afgewend, door zijnen ijver voor Mij, opdat Ik niet in mijnen ijver de kinderen Israls verdelgde.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Pinehas, de zoon van Eleazar, den zoon van den priester Aaron, heeft mijn gramschap van de Israelieten afgewend, doordat hij onder hen geijverd heeft zoals ik ijver. Dies heb ik de Israelieten niet in mijn ijverzucht verteerd.

Staten Vertaling
Pinehas, de zoon van Eleazar, den zoon van Aaron, den priester, heeft Mijn grimmigheid van over de kinderen Israels afgewend, dewijl hij Mijn ijver geijverd heeft in het midden derzelve, zodat Ik de kinderen Israels in Mijn ijver niet vernield heb.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

turned my: Joshua 7:25, Joshua 7:26, 2 Samuel 21:14, Psalms 106:23, John 3:36

for my sake: Heb. with my zeal, 2 Corinthians 11:2

that I: Exodus 22:5, Exodus 34:14, Deuteronomy 4:24, Deuteronomy 29:20, Deuteronomy 32:16, Deuteronomy 32:21, Joshua 24:19, 1 Kings 14:22, Psalms 78:58, Ezekiel 16:38, Nahum 1:2, Zephaniah 1:18, Zephaniah 3:8, 1 Corinthians 10:22

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:29 - Moses Numbers 25:4 - that the fierce Numbers 25:8 - thrust Numbers 31:3 - avenge the Lord Joshua 22:13 - Phinehas 1 Samuel 2:30 - I said 1 Kings 2:35 - Zadok 1 Kings 19:10 - very jealous 1 Chronicles 9:20 - the Lord 1 Chronicles 24:4 - sons of Eleazar Psalms 106:31 - General Proverbs 6:34 - General Proverbs 29:8 - wise Song of Solomon 8:6 - jealousy Hosea 14:4 - for Galatians 4:18 - it is Revelation 3:19 - be

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,.... His descent and genealogy is observed as before, partly to show that he was not a private person, but a man of public authority that did the above fact; perhaps one of the judges that Moses ordered to slay every man his man, and therefore what he did by the order of the supreme magistrate; and partly to show that he was heir apparent to the office of high priest, who in course was to succeed in it; nor should this action of his hinder it, but rather serve to secure and confirm it to him:

hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel; caused the effects of it to cease, by slaying the two persons, as before related:

while he was zealous for my sake among you; for the glory of God, the honour of his law, the credit of religion, and the good of his people, which is a good cause to be zealously affected in, Galatians 4:18 in which he was a type of Christ, whose zeal for the house of God, for the doctrine, discipline, and worship of it, for the salvation of his people, and the glory of God thereby, ate him up, Psalms 69:9 as well as in his turning away wrath from Israel; sin is the cause of wrath, and for it is revealed from heaven; the people of God are deserving of it as others; but Christ has bore it for them, and so has delivered them from it and all the effects of it, and they are secure from its coming upon them:

that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy; by the plague sent among them, being so highly provoked with their shocking abominations.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hath turned my wrath away - The signal example thus made of a leading offender by Phinehas was accepted by God as an expiation (literally in Numbers 25:13 “covering;” see the note at the typical significance Leviticus 1:4), and the exterminating wrath which had gone forth against the whole people was arrested Psalms 106:30.

The act of Phinehas must be regarded as exceptional. It was an extraordinary deed of vengeance, justified by the singular atrocity of the crime which provoked it; but it does not confer the right to every man to punish summarily any gross and flagrant breach of divine law committed in his presence. Compare the act of Mattathias (1 Macc. 2:24-26).

The act was its own justification. Its merit consisted in the evidence it gave that the heart of Phinehas was right before God. He was “zealous with God’s zeal,” and abhorred the presumptuous wickedness of Zimri, as God abhorred it. He therefore risked his own life by dealing according to their deserts with two influential and defiant evil-doers; and his act, done in the face of Moses and the people, and for them, was accepted by God as a national atonement; and rewarded by the people (compare the leadership assigned to him in Numbers 31:6; Joshua 22:13).