phinehas

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phinehas - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Phinehas
  mouth of brass, or from old Egypt, the negro. (1.) Son of
  Eleazar, the high priest (Ex. 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 (Num.
  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 Josh. 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 Ps. 106:30, 31. (See ED.)
  
    (2.) One of the sons of Eli, the high priest (1 Sam. 1:3;
  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 (1 Sam. 4:4, 11); and his wife, on
  hearing of his death, gave birth to a son, whom she called
  "Ichabod," and then she died (19-22).