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Phinehas

Phinehas (Levite)

Mentioned 1699–456 BC traditional (Jones)

Son of Eleazar, the high priest (Ex. 6:25). While yet a youth he distinguished himself at Shittim by his zeal against the immorality into which the Moabites had tempted the people (Num. 25:1-9), and thus “stayed the plague” that had broken out among the people, and by which twenty-four thousand of them perished.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father
Eleazar
Mother
Daughter of Putiel
Child
Abishua
Tagged in
16 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

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Places

Places named in the same verses as Phinehas, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

  1. location not graded: Gilead2
  2. location not graded: Canaan1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 2010–145 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

16 tagged verses in 7 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. Exodus1
  2. Numbers3
  3. Joshua5
  4. Judges1
  5. 1 Chronicles3
  6. Ezra2
  7. Psalms1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBPhinehas 25
KJVPhinehas 25
ASVPhinehas 25

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Every verse

All 16 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Exodus1 verse
  1. 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.

Numbers3 verses
  1. 25:7

    On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,

  2. 25:11

    “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.

  3. 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.

Joshua5 verses
  1. 22:13

    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.

  2. 22:30

    When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation—the heads of Israel’s clans who were with him—heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were satisfied.

  3. 22:31

    Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is among us, because you have not committed this breach of faith against Him. Consequently, you have delivered the Israelites from the hand of the LORD.”

  4. 22:32

    Then Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, together with the other leaders, returned to the Israelites in the land of Canaan and brought back a report regarding the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead.

  5. 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.

Judges1 verse
  1. 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.”

1 Chronicles3 verses
  1. 6:4

    Eleazar was the father of Phinehas, Phinehas was the father of Abishua,

  2. 6:50

    These were the descendants of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

  3. 9:20

    In earlier times Phinehas son of Eleazar had been in charge of the gatekeepers, and the LORD was with him.

Ezra2 verses
  1. 7:5

    the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest—

  2. 8:2

    from the descendants of Phinehas, Gershom; from the descendants of Ithamar, Daniel; from the descendants of David, Hattush

Psalms1 verse
  1. 106:30

    But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

Son of Eleazar, the high priest (Ex. 6:25). While yet a youth he distinguished himself at Shittim by his zeal against the immorality into which the Moabites had tempted the people (Num. 25:1-9), and thus “stayed the plague” that had broken out among the people, and by which twenty-four thousand of them perished. For his faithfulness on that occasion he received the divine approbation (10-13). He afterwards commanded the army that went out against the Midianites (31:6-8). When representatives of the people were sent to expostulate with the two and a half tribes who, just after crossing Jordan, built an altar and departed without giving any explanation, Phinehas was their leader, and addressed them in the words recorded in Josh. 22:16-20. Their explanation follows. This great altar was intended to be all ages only a witness that they still formed a part of Israel. Phinehas was afterwards the chief adviser in the war with the Benjamites. He is commemorated in Ps. 106:30, 31.