Num 25:11-13, Deu 13:6-11, 33:9-10, 1Sa 15:18-22, Pro 21:3 | ESV | STEP | Phinehas the son of Eleazar , son of Aaron the priest , has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel , in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy .

Numbers 25:11-13

11 “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he ^awas jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in ^bmy jealousy. 12 Therefore say, ^c‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace, 13 and it shall be to him and to ^dhis descendants after him the covenant of ^ea perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.’”

Deuteronomy 13:6-11

6 ^f“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or ^gthe wife you embrace ^{▼▼Hebrew the wife of your bosom} or your friend ⁱwho is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ ^jwhich neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 some ^kof the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, 8 you shall ^lnot yield to him or listen to him, nor ^mshall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. 9 But you shall kill him. ⁿYour hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10 ^oYou shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 11 And ^pall Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.

Deuteronomy 33:9-10

9 who said of his father and mother,
‘I regard them not’;
^qhe disowned his brothers
and ignored his children.
For ^rthey observed your word
and kept your covenant.
10 ^sThey shall teach Jacob your rules
and Israel your law;
^tthey shall put incense before you
and ^uwhole burnt offerings on your altar.

1 Samuel 15:18-22

18 And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ 19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? ^vWhy did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?” 20 And Saul said to Samuel, ^w“I have obeyed the voice of the Lord. I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction. 21 ^xBut the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.” 22 And Samuel said,

^y“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, ^zto obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.

Proverbs 21:3

3 ^aaTo do righteousness and justice
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.