Psalm 106:20
They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.
God's people traded the glory of the all-consuming, eternal God for a statue resembling an ox that consumes grass. Rather than worshiping the hands that made them, they worshiped what their hands had made.
Psalm 106:30-31
Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,
and the plague was stayed.
And that was counted to him as righteousness
from generation to generation forever.
It is a rare man who actually takes a stand. Most are unwilling to intercede or intervene. But Phinehas stood up. He intervened. And it was counted as righteousness forever. Just like Abraham, he believed in God and it was credited to his account as righteousness. He believed and God declared him righteous and demands generation after generation to commend him as righteous. God blessed Phinehas' zeal by justifying his passion and saving many others who were suffering under the plague of passivity and promiscuity. While they were laying down in sin, Phinehas stood up in righteousness.
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