³³ And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of ^(A)Phinehas his son, which had been given him in ^(B)the hill country of Ephraim.

¹³ Then the people of Israel sent to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, ^(A)Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,

²⁵ Eleazar, Aaron's son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel, and ^(A)she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites by their clans.

²⁶ for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, ^(A)he has appeared ^(B)once for all ^(C)at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. ²⁷ And just as ^(D)it is appointed for man to die once, and ^(E)after that comes judgment,

²⁴ but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues ^(A)forever.

³⁶ For David, after he had ^(A)served the purpose of God in his own generation, ^(B)fell asleep and ^(C)was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,

⁵ Your fathers, where are they? And ^(A)the prophets, do they live forever?

Israel's Futile Idolatry