Numbers 25:8
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.
Cross-references
Numbers 25:5 orders execution of Baal worshippers; verse 8 shows Phinehas personally carrying out that judgment.
Numbers 25:11 explains that Phinehas' act turned away God's wrath, directly commenting on the event in verse 8.
Numbers 25:18 later names Cozbi, the Midianite woman killed here, as part of the same incident.
Numbers 16:46-48 describes Aaron stopping a plague by incense — a parallel priestly intervention to Phinehas's spear stopping the plague.
Numbers 16:48 describes Aaron standing between dead and living, and the plague was stayed — the same phrase appears here.
Psalm 106:29-31 recounts Phinehas' deed and credits it as righteousness, echoing the Numbers narrative.
Exodus 22:20 commands death for sacrificing to other gods — Phinehas enforces this law by killing the idolater and his accomplice.