There's trouble, and it looks like civil war trouble, so who do we send as an emissary? This is an important role, and I would assume someone who isn't a hot head but resolute. The person they send is someone who has dealt with rebellion before, Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest. This is the guy who ran a spear through two people while they were worshiping a pagan fertility god (Numbers 25). On first thought, you might think this is absolutely the wrong guy to send, but even if his actions before seem like he could be rash, he wasn't. He was the perfect man; he clearly laid out the concerns about what they thought they were seeing, but also listened (I feel like I need to say more because too often people say they are listening but aren't, they are only waiting to talk again). Now comes the second reason Phinehas was the right man because once learning the truth, he carried the message of what was really happening back to the rest of Israel. With his reputation, no one was going to doubt him when he said that the tribes on the eastern side of Israel were in disobedience to God.
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