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Daughters of Zelophehad
[People]The daughters of Zelophehad were the five daughters of Zelophehad of the tribe of Manasseh: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. Their request for the inheritance (share of land) of their father, who had died without sons, led to the establishment of an ordinance governing inheritance by daughters.
Numbers 27
[Bible]Numbers 27 recounts how the daughters of Zelophehad ask for their father's inheritance, which gives rise to a law of inheritance for daughters. It also tells how, after Moses is told of his coming death, Joshua is commissioned as his successor by the laying on of hands.
Numbers 36
[Bible]Numbers 36 is the final chapter of the Book of Numbers. When the heads of the families of the children of Gilead fear that the inheritance (land) granted to the daughters of Zelophehad might pass to another tribe, Moses, in accordance with the word of the LORD, rules that daughters who inherit must marry within the tribe of their fathers.
Joshua 17
[Bible]Joshua 17 records the land west of the Jordan allotted to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It recounts how the daughters of Zelophehad received an inheritance, how the Canaanites were not fully driven out, and how Joshua answered the descendants of Joseph, who complained that their land was too small, by telling them to clear the forest.
Mahlah
[People]Mahlah is the first named of the five daughters of Zelophehad of the tribe of Manasseh. Together with her sisters, she asked Moses to let them receive the inheritance of their father, who had died without sons.
Hoglah
[People]Hoglah was one of the five daughters of Zelophehad of the tribe of Manasseh, who appear in the Old Testament books of Numbers and Joshua. Together with her sisters, she asked that daughters be allowed to inherit the land of their father, who had died without sons.
Zelophehad
[People]Zelophehad was a man of the tribe of Manasseh who died during the wilderness period. He left no sons, only five daughters, and their petition led to the establishment of the law governing the inheritance of land by daughters.
Genesis 6:1–4
[Bible Verses]A brief and enigmatic passage stating that "the sons of God" took "the daughters of men" as wives and that the Nephilim were on the earth in those days. Since antiquity, interpreters have disagreed over whether the sons of God were angels, descendants of Seth, or kings.
Song of Songs 5
[Bible]Song of Songs 5 opens with the bridegroom's song upon entering his garden. It then tells how the bride, failing to receive her beloved when he comes to her at night, loses him, searches for him, and sings of his beauty to the daughters of Jerusalem.
Phinehas
[People]Phinehas was an Israelite priest, the grandson of Aaron and the son of Eleazar. Scripture records that he received a "covenant of peace" for turning away God's wrath during the incident at Baal-peor.
Eleazar
[People]Eleazar was the third son of Aaron and the biblical figure who succeeded his father as Israel's second high priest. Together with Joshua, he oversaw the distribution of the land of Canaan.
Cozbi
[People]Cozbi was a Midianite woman mentioned in Numbers 25, the daughter of the Midianite chief Zur. During the Baal-peor incident, she was killed by Phinehas together with Zimri, a leader of the Israelite tribe of Simeon.
Dinah
[People]Dinah was the daughter of Jacob and Leah and the only daughter of Jacob named in the Bible. She is the central figure in the Shechem incident recorded in Genesis 34.
Isaiah 3
[Bible]Isaiah 3 is a prophecy declaring that God will remove the leaders and provisions on which Judah and Jerusalem relied, and that He will judge both the elders and princes who exploited the poor and the daughters of Zion who adorned themselves in pride.
Isaiah 4
[Bible]Isaiah 4 portrays Jerusalem after a judgment that has sharply reduced its male population (v. 1) and promises a restoration in which the glory of the LORD covers the purified remnant (vv. 2–6).
Genesis 6
[Bible]Genesis 6 is the chapter in which, as human wickedness fills the earth, God resolves to judge the world by a flood and commands Noah, who has found grace, to build an ark. The account of Noah's Flood begins here.
Isaiah 16
[Bible]Isaiah 16 continues the oracle against Moab that begins in Isaiah 15. It contains a lament over Moab's flight, its pride, and the devastation of its vineyards, and it ends with a prophecy that the glory of Moab will be brought low within three years.
Genesis 28
[Bible]Genesis 28 recounts how Jacob, fleeing his brother Esau on his way to his uncle Laban, dreams of a ladder reaching to heaven and receives God's promise, then names the place Bethel and makes a vow.
Psalm 106:30–31
[Bible Verses]This passage celebrates how Phinehas rose up during the Baal-peor incident and stopped the plague, and how his deed "was counted unto him for righteousness." Because it uses the same expression as Genesis 15:6, where Abraham's faith was counted for righteousness, it is frequently cited in discussions of justification.
Lot's Daughters
[People]Lot's daughters are the two daughters of Lot who appear in Genesis 19. They escaped with their father when Sodom was destroyed and later bore sons by him, becoming the ancestors of the Moabites and the Ammonites.