Psalm 106:30 {105:30}
Good News Translation
But Phinehas stood up and punished the guilty, and the plague was stopped.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Phinehas stood up and interceded, and the plague was stopped.

Contemporary English Version
But Phinehas helped them, and the sickness stopped.

New American Bible
Then Phinehas rose to intervene, and the plague was brought to a halt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter ceased.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter ceased.

Numbers 25:6-8,14,15 And behold one of the children of Israel went in before his brethren to a harlot of Madian, in the sight of Moses and of all the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle. . . .

Deuteronomy 13:9-11,15-17 But thou shalt presently put him to death. Let thy hand be first upon him, and afterwards the hands of all the people. . . .

Joshua 7:12 Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, but he shall flee from them: because he is defiled with the anathema. I will be no more with you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness.

1 Kings 18:40,41 And Elias said to them: Take the prophets of Baal, and let not one of them escape. And when they had taken them, Elias brought them down to the torrent Cison, and killed them there. . . .

Jonah 1:12-15 And they said to him: What shall we do with thee, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea flowed and swelled. . . .

Context
Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good
29And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them. 30Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter ceased.31And it was reputed to him unto justice, to generation and generation for evermore.…
Cross References
Exodus 6:25
But Eleazar the son of Aaron took a wife of the daughters of Phutiel: and she bore him Phinees. These are the heads of the Levitical families by their kindreds.

Numbers 25:7
And when Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up from the midst of the multitude, and taking a dagger,

Numbers 25:8
Went in after the Israelite into the brothel house, and thrust both of them through together, to wit, the man and the woman in the genital parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel.

Numbers 25:11
Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children of Israel in my zeal.

Numbers 25:12
Therefore say to him: behold I give him the peace of my covenant,

Psalm 106:29
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