Mazmur 106:30-31

106:30 Phinehas took a stand and intervened, ¹ 

and the plague subsided.

106:31 This brought him a reward,

an eternal gift. ² 

[106:30]  ¹ sn The intervention of Phinehas is recounted in Num 25:7-8.

[106:31]  ² tn Heb “and it was reckoned to him for righteousness, to a generation and a generation forever.” The verb חָשַׁב (khashav, “to reckon”) is collocated with צְדָקָה (tsÿdaqah, “righteousness”) only in Ps 106:31 and Gen 15:6, where God rewards Abram’s faith with a land grant.

[106:31]  sn Brought him a reward. See Num 25:12-13.