Psalms 106:31

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29 Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among them.

30 ^aThen Phinehas stood up and intervened,
And the plague was stopped.

31 And that was accounted to him ^afor righteousness
To all generations forevermore.

32 ^aThey angered Him also at the waters of¹ strife,
^bSo that it went ill with Moses on account of them;

33 ^aBecause they rebelled against His Spirit,
So that he spoke rashly with his lips.

34 ^aThey did not destroy the peoples,
^bConcerning whom the Lord had commanded them,

35 ^aBut they mingled with the Gentiles
And learned their works;

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And that was counted unto him for righteousness - See Numbers 25:11-13. Compare the notes at Romans 4:3. The meaning here is, that this was regarded as a "proof" or "demonstration" that he was a righteous man - a man fearing God.

Unto all generations for evermore - Hebrew, "To generation and generation forever." The record would be transmitted from one generation to another, without any intermission, and would be permanent. This is one of the illustrations of the statement so frequently made in the Scriptures (compare Exodus 20:6; Deuteronomy 7:9; Romans 11:28) that the blessings of religion will descend to a distant posterity. Such instances are constantly occurring, and there is no legacy which a man can leave his family so valuable as the fact that he himself fears God and keeps his laws.

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