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11 a“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in bMy zeal.  
12 Therefore say, a‘Behold, I give to him bMy covenant of peace;  
13 and it shall be to him and ahis descendants after him a covenant of ban everlasting priesthood, because he was czealous for his God, and dmade atonement for the children of Israel.’ ”  
14 Now the name of the Israelite who was killed, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a leader of a father’s house among the Simeonites.
15 And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of aZur; he was head of the people of a father’s house in Midian.  
16 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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John Wesley's Notes
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Numbers 25:13

At everlasting priesthood - To continue as long as the law and common - wealth of the Jews did. But this promise was conditional, and therefore might be made void, by the miscarriages of Phinehas's sons, as it seems it was, and thereupon a like promise was made to Eli of the line of Ithamar, that he and his should walk before the Lord, namely, in the office of high - priest, for ever, which also for his and their sins was made void, I Samuel 2:30. And the the priesthood returned to Phinehas's line in the time of Solomon, I Kings 2:26-27, I Kings 2:34.




Other John Wesley's Notes entries containing Numbers 25:13:

Genesis 49:7
Numbers 25:12
1 Samuel 2:35

 

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