Text: Psalm 106:29-31
OT Text Referred to: Numbers 25:11
Subject: Phinehas's zeal at Baal-Peor
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression
Significance: Numbers 25:11 describes Phinehas turning back God's wrath by acting with divine קִנְאָה (qin'ah, "zeal/jealousy") at Baal-Peor. Psalm 106:29-31 recounts this episode: "They provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them. But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained. It was credited to him as righteousness." The psalm's phrase "credited as righteousness" (תֵּחָשֶׁב לִצְדָקָה) deliberately echoes Abraham's faith in Genesis 15:6, elevating Phinehas's zealous intervention to the same theological category. The psalm thus interprets Phinehas's physical act as an expression of faith-filled covenant loyalty that secured lasting favor.