Numbers 25:10

The Zeal of Phinehas

10 And the Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 25:10 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 25:10

And the Lord spake unto Moses
Out of the cloud, or out of the tabernacle, at the door of which Moses now was, ( Numbers 25:6 ) , this was after so many had died of the plague, and after the fact of Phinehas, by which it was stopped: saying; as follows.

Numbers 25:10 In-Context

8 and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped.

9 Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

10 And the Lord said to Moses,

11 “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.

12 Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace,