Phinehas

Phinehas was the grandson of Aaron and son of Eleazar who became famous for his zealous act during Israel's apostasy at Baal-peor. When an Israelite man brought a Midianite woman into the camp in open defiance of Moses's command during a plague, Phinehas followed them into the tent and drove a spear through both of them, stopping the plague that had already killed twenty-four thousand people (Numbers 25:6–13). God commended his 'zeal' and made with him 'a covenant of perpetual priesthood' for himself and his descendants. He later supervised the holy war against Midian (Numbers 31:6) and mediated the conflict over the altar built by the Transjordanian tribes (Joshua 22:13–20). Paul references the Baal-peor incident in 1 Corinthians 10:8 as a warning against sexual immorality.