Zimri (prince)

Zimri, son of Salu, was the prince or leader of a family within the Tribe of Simeon during the time of the Israelites’ Exodus in the wilderness at the time when they were approaching the Promised Land.

Quotes about

• Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting. When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand 8 and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman’s stomach. [...] The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family

• Book of Numbers 25:6-8;14 NKJV.

• In this way he (Mattathias) demonstrated his zeal for the law, just as Phinehas had done with Zimri, the son of Salu.

• 1 Maccabees 2:26 NKJV.

See also

• Cozbi