Numbers 25:12
Declare, therefore, that I am granting him My covenant of peace.
BSB
ASV
Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
KJV
Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
My covenant of peace - of an everlasting priesthood - As the word peace implied all kinds of blessings, both spiritual and temporal, it may mean no more here than the promise of God, to grant him and his family the utmost prosperity in reference to both worlds. The everlasting priesthood refers properly to the priesthood of Christ which was shadowed out by the priesthood under the law; no matter in what family it was continued.
By the covenant of peace given him, some understand in general a promise of long life and prosperity, and all good; it seems rather to be meant particularly of the covenant of priesthood, for that is called the covenant of life and peace ( Mal. ii. 5 ), and was made for the preservation of peace between God and his people.
Phinehas . . . hath turned my wrath away--This assurance was a signal mark of honor that the stain of blood, instead of defiling, confirmed him in office and that his posterity should continue as long as the national existence of Israel.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Isaiah 54:10Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has…
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But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is transformed and the mountains are toppled into the depths of the seas,
But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.
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Malachi 3:1“Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He…
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Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for Him,
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way.”
