“Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.”
Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the children of Israel in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them — The Hebrew word for 'jealous' (qana) here carries both the sense of zealous passion and possessive love. God's jealousy for exclusive covenant relationship is mirrored in Phinehas's action: he has taken up God's own protective fury against covenant violation. The phrase 'my jealousy' indicates that God sees Phinehas's zeal as participation in the divine passion for holiness. This is not private vengeance but covenantal enforcement.
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