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Numbers 25:12

Therefore declare: I grant him my covenant of peace.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Covenant;   Decision;   Fear of God;   Israel;   Phinehas;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Covenant;   Covenants and Vows;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Atonement, under the Law;   High Priest, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Idol, Idolatry;   Midianites;   Moabites;   Phinehas;   Simeon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Balaam;   Jealousy;   Midian;   Phinehas;   Priest;   Zadok;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Covenant;   Peace;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Zeal;   Zimri;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Census;   Pentateuch;   Zimri;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   High Priest;   Midian, Midianites;   Numbers, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   Malachi;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Peace;   Phinehas;   Zimri;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Midian, Midianites ;   Phinehas ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Balaam;   Phinehas;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Baal;   Phinehas;   Shittim;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ba'al,;   Phin'ehas;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Covenant, in the Old Testament;   Cozbi;   Midianitish Woman;   Moses;   Phinehas;   Priest, High;   Text of the Old Testament;   Zimri (1);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alexander Jannæus (Jonathan);   Balaam;   Corinaldi, David ḥayyim;   Covenant;   Elijah;   ḥanina B. ḥama;   Phinehas;   Priest;   Small and Large Letters;   Zealots;   Zimri;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace,
Update Bible Version
Therefore say, Look, I give to him my covenant of peace:
English Revised Version
Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
New Century Version
So tell Phinehas that I am making my peace agreement with him.
New English Translation
Therefore, announce: ‘I am going to give to him my covenant of peace.
Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace.
World English Bible
Therefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace:
Amplified Bible
"Therefore say, 'Behold, I give to Phinehas My covenant of peace.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor speke thou to hym, Lo! Y yyue to hym the pees of my couenaunt,
Young's Literal Translation
`Therefore say, Lo, I am giving to him My covenant of peace,
Berean Standard Bible
Declare, therefore, that I grant him My covenant of peace.
Contemporary English Version
But instead of punishing them, I forgave them. So because of the loyalty that Phinehas showed, I solemnly promise that he and his descendants will always be my priests."
American Standard Version
Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
Bible in Basic English
So say to them that I will make with him an agreement of peace:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherfore say: beholde, I geue vnto hym my couenaunt of peace.
Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore say, ‘I am giving him my covenant of shalom,
Darby Translation
Therefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace!
Easy-to-Read Version
Tell Phinehas that I am making a peace agreement with him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Wherefore say: Behold, I give unto him My covenant of peace;
King James Version (1611)
Wherefore say, Behold, I giue vnto him my Couenant of peace.
New Life Bible
So say to them that I make My agreement of peace with Phinehas.
New Revised Standard
Therefore say, ‘I hereby grant him my covenant of peace.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore say, - Behold me! giving unto him my covenant of peace;
Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore say to him, Beholde, I giue vnto him my couenant of peace,
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore I said, Behold, I will give to him my covenant of peace;
Good News Translation
So tell him that I am making a covenant with him that is valid for all time to come.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore say to him: behold I give him the peace of my covenant,
Revised Standard Version
Therefore say, 'Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace;
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thus do thou say to him, Behold, I give him a covenant of peace:
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of shalom:
King James Version
Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
Lexham English Bible
Therefore say, ‘Behold, I am giving to him my covenant of peace,
Literal Translation
Therefore say, Behold, I give to him My covenant of peace.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore saye: beholde, I geue him my couenaunt of peace,
New American Standard Bible
"Therefore say, 'Behold, I am giving him My covenant of peace;
New King James Version
Therefore say, "Behold, I give to him My covenant of peace;
New Living Translation
Now tell him that I am making my special covenant of peace with him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Therefore say, 'Behold, I give him My covenant of peace;
Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give him My covenant of peace;

Contextual Overview

6An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 7When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand, 8followed the Israelite man into the tent, and drove it through both the Israelite man and the woman—through her belly. Then the plague on the Israelites was stopped, 9but those who died in the plague numbered twenty-four thousand. 10The Lord spoke to Moses, 11“Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the Israelites because he was zealous among them with my zeal, so that I did not destroy the Israelites in my zeal. 12Therefore declare: I grant him my covenant of peace. 13It will be a covenant of perpetual priesthood for him and his future descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.” 14The name of the slain Israelite man, who was struck dead with the Midianite woman, was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family. 15The name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal head of a family in Midian.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 13:29, Malachi 2:4, Malachi 2:5, Malachi 3:1

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 13:29 - the covenant

Cross-References

Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will certainly bless him; I will make him fruitful and will multiply him greatly. He will father twelve tribal leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.
Genesis 21:13
and I will also make a nation of the slave’s son because he is your offspring.”
Genesis 25:10
This was the field that Abraham bought from the Hethites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
Genesis 25:15
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
Psalms 83:6
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,Moab and the Hagrites,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore say,.... Moses is bid to tell what follows to Phinehas himself, for his comfort and encouragement, and to the people of Israel, that they might take notice of it, and give him honour and respect, as one highly esteemed by the Lord:

behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace; not only hereby assuring him that he had nothing to fear from the brethren and relations of the person he had slain, as Aben Ezra; but that he should enjoy all peace and happiness, external, internal, and eternal: Baal Hatfurira on the place says, that "Shalom", peace, is by geometry, or numerically, the Messiah; who is the peace, the peace maker, and peace giver, and in whom all the blessings of grace and peace are: and if this covenant is the same with the covenant of the priesthood in the next verse, it may be so called, because the priests had a peculiar nearness to God, and enjoyed his friendship, favour, and peace with him, and because the right administration of their office was the means of peace between God and his people; in this also Phinehas was a type of Christ; the covenant of grace made with him is called the covenant of peace,

Isaiah 54:10 for in this covenant the scheme of peace and reconciliation was formed, agreed to, and settled; Christ was appointed the peace maker, which he agreed to be; and in consequence of it was sent and obtained peace by the blood of his cross, which is published in the everlasting Gospel, called therefore the Gospel of peace.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My covenant of peace - Equivalent to “the covenant of My peace.” God established with Phinehas in particular that covenant which He had made generally with all his people; and among its blessings peace is especially mentioned, because of the peace between God and the congregation which Phinehas had brought about. As an additional gift there is assigned to him and his seed forever the office of peace-making, the legitimate function of the priesthood (compare Ephesians 2:14); and the covenant was thus to him a covenant not only of peace but of life (compare the marginal reference). Phinehas became highpriest after the death of his father Eleazar, and the office, with a short interruption from the days of Eli to those of David, when for unknown reasons it was filled by the descendants of his uncle Ithamar, was perpetuated in his line; nor indeed is it known to have departed from that line again until the typical priesthood of the sons of Aaron was merged in the actual priesthood of the Saviour of mankind.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 12. - 13. My covenant of peace - of an everlasting priesthood — As the word peace implied all kinds of blessings, both spiritual and temporal, it may mean no more here than the promise of God, to grant him and his family the utmost prosperity in reference to both worlds. The everlasting priesthood refers properly to the priesthood of Christ which was shadowed out by the priesthood under the law; no matter in what family it was continued. Therefore the כהנת עולם kehunnath olam, or eternal priesthood, does not merely refer to any sacerdotal ministrations which should be continued in the family of Phinehas, during the Mosaic dispensation, but to that priesthood of Christ typified by that of Aaron and his successors. The priesthood alone is everlasting, and a covenant or grant of that was made to Phinehas, and his descendants. The Jews reckon twelve high priests of the race of Phinehas, from this time to the days of Solomon, nine more from that time to the captivity, (see 1 Chronicles 6:4; 1 Chronicles 6:15), and fifteen from their return to the time of Antiochus Eupator, the last of whom was Onias, slain by Lysias. Ezra, the great priest and scribe, was of this line, Ezra 7:1; Ezra 7:5. The family of Ithamar, uncle of Phinehas, had the priesthood for about 150 years; but it was restored to the family of Phinehas in the person of Zadok the priest, 1 Chronicles 6:50, in which it continued in the whole about 950 years. Probably the Maccabees were of the same family; but though this is not certain, there is no evidence against it. See Calmet. God therefore sufficiently fulfilled his promise; he gave to him and his descendants almost the utmost temporal length that could be given of that priesthood which is, in its own nature, eternal. Here then the word עולם olam means, not a limited time, but what is eternal in its duration. Genesis 21:33.


 
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