This article is about Phinehas (son_of_Eli). For other homonyms, please refer to the Phinehas article. One of the sons of High Priest Eli during the final period of the Judges.
1 Samuel 1:3When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions;
1 Samuel 2:12The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;1 Samuel 2:13and he stabbed it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. The priest took all that the fork brought up for himself. They did this to all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh.1 Samuel 2:14Yes, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”1 Samuel 2:15If the man said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires;” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”1 Samuel 2:16The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.1 Samuel 2:17But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 2:22He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.
1 Samuel 2:23No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.1 Samuel 2:24If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.1 Samuel 2:25The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.1 Samuel 2:26A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Did I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?1 Samuel 2:27Didn’t I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel) to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Didn’t I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?1 Samuel 2:28Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’1 Samuel 2:29“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.1 Samuel 2:30Behold, the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.1 Samuel 2:31You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man in your house forever.1 Samuel 2:32The man of yours whom I don’t cut off from my altar will consume your eyes and grieve your heart. All the increase of your house will die in the flower of their age.1 Samuel 2:33This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.1 Samuel 2:34I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever.
1 Samuel 3:13Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli) that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be removed with sacrifice or offering forever.”
1 Samuel 4:11A man of Benjamin ran out of the army and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.
1 Samuel 4:17When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.1 Samuel 4:18His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to giving birth. When she heard the news that God’s ark was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.1 Samuel 4:19About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have given birth to a son.” But she didn’t answer, neither did she regard it.1 Samuel 4:20She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.1 Samuel 4:21She said, “The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark has been taken.”