Phinehas
Biblical priest and prophet who opposed the heresy of Peor
Phinehas
According to the Hebrew Bible, Phinehas (also spelled Phineas, ; Hebrew: פִּינְחָס, romanized: Pînəḥās, Ancient Greek: Φινεές Phinees, Latin: Phinees) was a priest during the Exodus. The grandson of Aaron and son of Eleazar, the High Priests (Exodus 6:25), he distinguished himself as a youth at Shittim with his zeal against the heresy of Peor. Displeased with the immorality with which the Moabites and Midianites had successfully tempted the Israelites (Numbers 25:1–9) to inter-marry and to worship Baal-peor, Phinehas personally executed an Israelite man and a Midianite woman while they were together in the man's tent, running a javelin or spear through the man and the belly of the woman, bringing to an end the plague sent by Yahweh to punish the Israelites for sexually intermingling with the Midianites. Phinehas is commended by Yahweh in Numbers 25:10–13, as well as King David in Psalm 106 (Psalms 106:28–31) for having stopped Israel's fall into idolatrous practices brought in by Midianite...
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