4 Bible Verses about God's Covenant With Phinehas

Therefore declare: I grant him My covenant of peace. It 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.”

The Lord spoke to Moses, “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.

After these events, during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, Ezra—

Seraiah’s son, Azariah’s son,
Hilkiah’s son, Shallum’s son,
Zadok’s son, Ahitub’s son,
Amariah’s son, Azariah’s son,
Meraioth’s son, read more.
Zerahiah’s son,
Uzzi’s son, Bukki’s son,
Abishua’s son, Phinehas’s son,
Eleazar’s son, Aaron the chief priest’s son

But Phinehas stood up and intervened,
and the plague was stopped.
It was credited to him as righteousness
throughout all generations to come.