⁶ And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were ^(A)weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting. ^7 (B)When Phinehas ^(C)the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand ⁸ and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped. ⁹ Nevertheless, ^(D)those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

The Zeal of Phinehas

¹⁰ And the Lord said to Moses, ¹¹ “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he ^(E)was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in ^(F)my jealousy. ¹² Therefore say, ^(G)‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace, ¹³ and it shall be to him and to ^(H)his descendants after him the covenant of ^(I)a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.’”

⁸ Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

^50 (A)Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, ^51 (B)“Does our law judge a man without first ^(C)giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”

^30 (A)Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

^30 (A)And I sought for a man among them ^(B)who should build up the wall ^(C)and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.

Jeremiah Spared from Death

^16 (A)Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, ^(B)“This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.” ^17 (C)And certain of ^(D)the elders of the land arose and spoke to all the assembled people, saying, ¹⁸ “Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts,

¹⁹ Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? ^(F)Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, ^(G)and did not the Lord relent of the disaster that he had pronounced against them? ^(H)But we are about to bring great disaster upon ourselves.”

Jerusalem Refused to Repent