Dict: easton - Phinehas

easton:

Phinehas @ mouth of brass, or from old Egypt, the negro.

(1.) Son of Eleazar, the high priest kjv@Exodus:6:25). While yet a youth he distinguished himself at Shittim by his zeal against the immorality into which the Moabites had tempted the people kjv@Numbers:25:1-9), and thus "stayed the plague" that had broken out among the people, and by which twenty-four thousand of them perished. For his faithfulness on that occasion he received the divine approbation (10-13). He afterwards commanded the army that went out against the Midianites (31:6-8). When representatives of the people were sent to expostulate with the two and a half tribes who, just after crossing Jordan, built an altar and departed without giving any explanation, Phinehas was their leader, and addressed them in the words recorded in kjv@Joshua:22:16-20. Their explanation follows. This great altar was intended to be all ages only a witness that they still formed a part of Israel. Phinehas was afterwards the chief adviser in the war with the Benjamites. He is commemorated in kjv@Psalms:106:30-31. (
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(2.) One of the sons of Eli, the high priest ( kjv@1Samuel:1:3 kjv@1Samuel:2:12). He and his brother Hophni were guilty of great crimes, for which destruction came on the house of Eli

(31). He died in battle with the Philistines ( kjv@1Samuel:4:4 kjv@1Samuel:4:11); and his wife, on hearing of his death, gave birth to a son, whom she called "Ichabod," and then she died (19-22).