Why Did Pinchas Kill?
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...
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 ...
What did Phinehas do?
role in Numbers
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, is so incensed at the sight of an Israelite consorting with a Midianite woman that he kills them both, thus ending a plague that has broken out and earning God's special favour: a covenant of perpetual priesthood with him and…
What did the Midianites do to the Israelites?
According to verse 49, the Israelites themselves suffered zero casualties. All Midianite towns and camps were burnt; all Midianite women, children and livestock were deported as captives to the "camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho", where Moses and Eleazar received them.
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