Numbers 25:13

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁶Just then, an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. ⁷On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand, ⁸followed the Israelite into his 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 was halted, ⁹but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000. ¹⁰Then the LORD said to Moses, ¹¹"Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal. ¹²Declare, therefore, that I grant him My covenant of peace. ¹³It will be a covenant of permanent priesthood for him and his descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites."¹⁴The name of the Israelite who was slain with the Midianie woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family. ¹⁵And the name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

his seed: 1 Samuel 2:30, 1 Kings 2:27, 1 Chronicles 6:4-15, 1 Chronicles 6:50-53

an everlasting: Exodus 40:15, Isaiah 61:6, Jeremiah 33:18, Jeremiah 33:22, Hebrews 7:11, Hebrews 7:17, Hebrews 7:18, 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:9, Revelation 1:6

zealous: 1 Kings 19:10, 1 Kings 19:14, Psalms 69:9, Psalms 106:31, Psalms 119:139, John 2:17, Acts 22:3-5, Romans 10:2-4

atonement: Exodus 32:30, Joshua 7:12, 2 Samuel 21:3, Hebrews 2:17, 1 John 2:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:8 - everlasting Leviticus 1:4 - atonement Leviticus 15:15 - an atonement Numbers 31:3 - avenge the Lord Deuteronomy 18:5 - General 1 Samuel 2:35 - I will build 2 Samuel 21:14 - God Nehemiah 13:29 - the covenant Malachi 2:5 - covenant Titus 2:14 - zealous

Cross-References

Genesis 25:16
These were the sons of Ishmael, and these were their names by their villages and encampments-twelve princes of their tribes.

Genesis 25:17
Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 25:29
One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.

Genesis 25:31
"First sell me your birthright," Jacob replied.

Genesis 36:3
and Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.

Psalms 120:5
Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

Song of Solomon 1:5
I am dark yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

Isaiah 42:11
Let the desert and its cities raise their voices; let the villages of Kedar cry aloud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops.

Isaiah 60:7
All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will serve you and go up on My altar with acceptance; I will adorn My glorious house.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall have it, and his seed after him,.... The covenant, and all the blessings of it; so the covenant stands fast with Christ, and all his spiritual seed, Psalms 89:28:

even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; or this may be read in connection with the preceding words, and the sense be, and he and his shall have the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, beside the covenant of peace before promised to him: the Aaronic priesthood is called everlasting, because it was to continue, and did continue, throughout the whole Jewish dispensation, unto the coming of the Messiah, in whom it had its fulfilling end. Now though Phinehas in course was to have the priesthood at his father's death, yet it is here promised him on account of his zeal, both to assure him that he should survive his father, and that nothing should befall him that should render him incapable of the priesthood; and moreover, that he should have a seed in whom it should be continued; there was indeed an interruption of it in his line for a little while, on some account or other, it being translated into the family of Eli, a son of Ithamar; but then it was restored again in the time of Solomon to the family of Phinehas, where it continued unto the captivity, and even to the times of Herod, and so of the Messiah: in this also Phinehas was a type of Christ, the covenant made with him not only being from everlasting and to everlasting, a covenant that cannot be broken, and will never be removed; but the priesthood founded on it is so too, being established by the oath of God, who swore to him, "thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek": Christ's priesthood is an unchangeable one, and does not pass from one to another; his sacrifice has a perpetual virtue and efficacy in it to take away sin, and he ever lives to make intercession for his people, Hebrews 7:21:

because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel; by executing judgment upon the delinquents, as Christ has made atonement for the sins of his people by satisfying law and justice: and, besides what has been observed, it may be remarked, that there is an agreement between Phinehas and Christ in his very name; Phinehas signifies either "the face of him that spares", that is, of God, that spares; Christ is the face of God, the express image of his person, even of him, who, though he spared not Christ himself, yet he spares his people for Christ's sake; or else "he shall look that spares", or "and spare" g; that is, God, who looks upon the person, righteousness, blood, and sacrifice of his Son, and spares his people.

g Vid. Hiller. Onomastic. Sacr. p. 476.