106:30 Phinehas took a stand and intervened, 1
and the plague subsided.
106:31 This brought him a reward,
an eternal gift. 2
1 sn The intervention of Phinehas is recounted in Num 25:7-8.
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.