A prince: this is added as a proof of Phinehas’s zeal, that he durst venture upon so great a person, who was likely to have many avengers of his blood.
Of a chief house, Heb. of the house of his father. Every tribe was divided into great households, called the houses of their fathers, Num_1:2, and he was the prince or chief of one of these, though not of fire whole tribe.
Among the Simeonites; of the tribe of Simeon, which seems to have been too much influenced by his and other such examples, so that for 59,300, which were numbered, Num_1:22,23, there were now only 22,000 Num_26:14.