The Storm in Me

Phinehas

According to the Hebrew Bible, Phinehas or Phineas (; Hebrew: פִּינְחָס‎, Modern: Pīnẖas, Tiberian: Pīnəḥās, Greek: Φινεες Finees, Latin: Phinees) was a priest during the Israelites’ Exodus journey. 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 God to punish the … more »