Phinehas son of Eleazar because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites

Numbers 25:1-18

While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods. So Israel yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. And the Lord’s anger burned against them.

The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the Lord, so that the Lord’s fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”

When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped; but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites.

The Lord said to Moses,  “Treat the Midianites as enemies and kill them. They treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the Peor incident involving their sister Kozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who was killed when the plague came as a result of that incident.”

Why?

Does the anger of us may like Phinehas? so the righteousness of the Lord could be honored.

Sometimes our anger is because of our benefit less or our right be invaded. But to be a Christian should anger to the unrighteousness of the Lord.

The actions of Phinehas bring good results to the Israelites and their descendants.

How?

Be a righteous man and make anger for the righteousness of the Lord instead of for our own benefit.