Phinehas

Phinehas or Pinhas - פינחס, Standard Hebrew Pinəḥas, Tiberian Hebrew Pînəħās: "Mouth of brass", or from Egyptian "black person." (1.) Son of\nEleazar, the high priest (Ex. 6:25). While yet a youth he\ndistinguished himself at Shittim by his zeal against the\nimmorality into which the Moabites had tempted the people (Num.\n25:1-9), and thus "stayed the plague" that had broken out among\nthe people, and by which twenty-four thousand of them perished.\nFor his faithfulness on that occasion he received the divine\napprobation (10-13). He afterwards commanded the army that went\nout against the Midianites (31:6-8). When representatives of the\npeople were sent to expostulate with the two and a half tribes\nwho, just after crossing Jordan, built an altar and departed\nwithout giving any explanation, Phinehas was their leader, and\naddressed them in the words recorded in Josh. 22:16-20. Their\nexplanation follows. This great altar was intended to be all\nages only a witness that they still formed a part of Israel.\nPhinehas was afterwards the chief adviser in the war with the\nBenjamites. He is commemorated in Ps. 106:30, 31. (See ED.) (2.) One of the sons of Eli, the high priest (1 Sam. 1:3;\n2:12). He and his brother Hophni were guilty of inreverence in doing their priestly duties, for which destruction came on the house of Eli (31). He died in battle with the Philistines (1 Sam. 4:4, 11); and his wife, on\nhearing of his death, gave birth to a son, whom she called "Ichabod," and then she died (19-22). Category:Torah people