"Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites, when he manifested such zeal for my sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in my zeal.

They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols.

They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.

They made him angry with their pagan shrines, and made him jealous with their idols.

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,

Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's angry judgment. The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery wrath. Indeed, he will bring terrifying destruction on all who live on the earth."

Therefore you must wait patiently for me," says the Lord, "for the day when I attack and take plunder. I have decided to gather nations together and assemble kingdoms, so I can pour out my fury on them -- all my raging anger. For the whole earth will be consumed by my fiery anger.

Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

"If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard, and he lets the livestock loose and they graze in the field of another man, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

For you must not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God.

The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory.

Joshua said, "Why have you brought disaster on us? The Lord will bring disaster on you today!" All Israel stoned him to death. (They also stoned and burned the others.)

Joshua warned the people, "You will not keep worshiping the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God who will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.

They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers for the land.

He threatened to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him and turned back his destructive anger.

Phinehas took a stand and intervened, and the plague subsided.

I will punish you as an adulteress and murderer deserves. I will avenge your bloody deeds with furious rage.

The Lord is a zealous and avenging God; the Lord is avenging and very angry. The Lord takes vengeance against his foes; he sustains his rage against his enemies.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God's wrath remains on him.

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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.

For my sake

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Turned my

Joshua said, "Why have you brought disaster on us? The Lord will bring disaster on you today!" All Israel stoned him to death. (They also stoned and burned the others.)
They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers for the land.
He threatened to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him and turned back his destructive anger.
The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God's wrath remains on him.

For my sake

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

That i

"If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard, and he lets the livestock loose and they graze in the field of another man, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.
For you must not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God.
The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory.
They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols.
Joshua warned the people, "You will not keep worshiping the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God who will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.
Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.
They made him angry with their pagan shrines, and made him jealous with their idols.
I will punish you as an adulteress and murderer deserves. I will avenge your bloody deeds with furious rage.
The Lord is a zealous and avenging God; the Lord is avenging and very angry. The Lord takes vengeance against his foes; he sustains his rage against his enemies.
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's angry judgment. The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery wrath. Indeed, he will bring terrifying destruction on all who live on the earth."
Therefore you must wait patiently for me," says the Lord, "for the day when I attack and take plunder. I have decided to gather nations together and assemble kingdoms, so I can pour out my fury on them -- all my raging anger. For the whole earth will be consumed by my fiery anger.
Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?

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This brought him a reward, an eternal gift.
for jealousy kindles a husband's rage, and he will not show mercy when he takes revenge.

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