Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat. 1 Kings 1:2

Trivia: When the ark was brought into the Temple, what made it so that the priests couldn't carry out their duties?

God stopped killing people for "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab" because "his wrath was turned away" by a man who thrust a javelin through a man of Israel and a daughter of Moab.


Phinehas

What was this man's name?
And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. Numbers 25:7
And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. Numbers 25:7

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