This is what the Lord Almighty says: “I am very jealous(A) for Zion; I am burning with jealousy for her.”

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Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.

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11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites.(A) Since he was as zealous for my honor(B) among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal.

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11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

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13 He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood,(A) because he was zealous(B) for the honor(C) of his God and made atonement(D) for the Israelites.”(E)

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13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.

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10 He replied, “I have been very zealous(A) for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant,(B) torn down your altars,(C) and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left,(D) and now they are trying to kill me too.”

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10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

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The Lord’s Answer

18 Then the Lord was jealous(A) for his land
    and took pity(B) on his people.

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18 Then will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people.

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