Verse Numbers 12:10. _MIRIAM_ BECAME _LEPROUS_] It is likely Miriam was _chief_ in this mutiny; and it is probable that it was on this ground she is mentioned _first_, (see Numbers 12:1,) and punishe...
Miriam, as a prophetess (compare Exodus 15:20) no less than as the sister of Moses and Aaron, took the first rank among the women of Israel; and Aaron may be regarded as the ecclesiastical head of the...
3. THE REBELLION OF MIRIAM AND AARON CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses (Numbers 12:1)_ 2. The interference of the Lord (Numbers 12:4) 3. Miriam leprous (Numbers 12:10) 4. Aar
NUMBERS 12:1 (JE). MIRIAM'S AND AARON'S JEALOUSY OF MOSES, AND YAHWEH'S VINDICATION OF HIM. The challenge of Moses-' prerogative to be Yahweh's sole spokesman is strangely combined with a complaint re...
LEPROUS. See note on Exodus 4:6. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. = "there she was leprous! "abruptness of language reveals the excitement produced....
AND, BEHOLD, MIRIAM BECAME LEPROUS— We have here another instance of the expressive beauty of the original being spoiled by the insertion of the italics. Nothing can be more nervous and significative...
F. FOOLISH CONDUCT OF MIRIAM AND AARON AND RESOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM (NUMBERS 12) TEXT Numbers 12:1. And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for h...
_AND THE CLOUD DEPARTED FROM OFF THE TABERNACLE; AND, BEHOLD, MIRIAM BECAME LEPROUS, WHITE AS SNOW: AND AARON LOOKED UPON MIRIAM, AND, BEHOLD, SHE WAS LEPROUS._ The cloud departed from off the tabern...
THE JEALOUSY OF MIRIAM AND AARON In this scene Miriam is the chief actor: the punishment falls on her alone. Aaron seems to have been led away by her (cp. Exodus 32:22). The controversy arose in conne...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 12 MIRIAM AND AARON ARE JEALOUS OF MOSES – NUMBERS 12:1-16 V1 Moses’ wife was a woman from Cush (a place in
AND THE CLOUD DEPARTED... — The withdrawal of the cloud was the visible token of the Divine displeasure. The word _sar, departed,_ which is here used, is an entirely different word from that which occ...
וְ הֶ עָנָ֗ן סָ֚ר מֵ עַ֣ל הָ...
THE JEALOUSY OF MIRIAM AND AARON Numbers 12:1 IT may be confidently said that no representative writer of the post-exilic age would have invented or even cared to revive the episode of this chapter....
GOD PROTECTS MOSES AGAINST CRITICISM Numbers 12:1 This Ethiopian wife may have been Zipporah, or some other woman whom Moses married after his first wife's death. That Moses, the great lawgiver and l...
A third manifestation of discontent and rebellion arose among individuals and leaders. The marriage of Moses to a Cushite woman was the occasion of the revelation of an element of jealousy in the hear...
And the cloud departed from off the (f) tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam [became] leprous, [white] as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, [she was] leprous. (f) From the door of the taber...
Departed from the door to its former place, (Calmet) as if in abhorrence of Mary's leprosy, (Hiscuni) and still more of the sin, which had brought upon her that punishment. (Calmet) --- Perhaps the cl...
Reader! observe the striking nature of the punishment. Moses' face was made glorious from being much with GOD in communion. Miriam's face is leprous when GOD departs. Dearest JESUS! what am I but full...
The previous portion of the Book of Numbers, viewed as a history, has evidently a prefatory character, however important and divinely wise. It is in a great measure preparatory for that which we have...
After that (for what form will not rebellion assume?) Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses. It is the prophetess and the priest (one who has the word from God and access to God, the twofold character...
AND THE CLOUD DEPARTED FROM OFF THE TABERNACLE,.... Not from off the door of the tabernacle, as Aben Ezra, for that is implied in the last clause of Numbers 12:9, but from off that part of the taberna...
And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam [became] leprous, [white] as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, [she was] leprous. Ver. 10. _Miriam became leprous._]...
_From off the tabernacle_ Probably not the whole tabernacle, but from that part to which it had come, to that part which was directly over the mercy-seat, where it constantly abode. Or, perhaps, it qu...
1 God rebuketh the sedition of Miriam and Aaron. 10 Miriams leprosie is healed at the prayer of Moses. 14 God commandeth her to be shut out of the hoste. [MIRIAM LEPROUS.] 1 AND Miriam and Aaron s...
And the cloud departed from off the Tabernacle, it mounted aloft, in token of the fact that the relations between God and His people were severed; and, BEHOLD, MIRIAM BECAME LEPROUS, WHITE AS SNOW; in...
Miriam's Leprosy Breaks out and is Healed...
MIRIAM AND AARON BECOME CRITICS (vs.1-16) Soon after God's dealing so seriously with Israel's complaints, both Miriam and Aaron are infected with a similar spirit of murmuring. It was plainly Miriam...
10-16 The cloud departed, and Miriam became leprous. When God goes, evil comes: expect no good when God departs. Her foul tongue, as Bishop Hall says, was justly punished with a foul face. Aaron, as...
FROM OFF THE TABERNACLE; not from the whole tabernacle, for then they must have removed, but from that part of the tabernacle whither it was come, to that part which was directly over the mercy-seat,...
The brief section of our book to which we now approach may be viewed in two distinct aspects; in the first place, it is typical or dispensational; and, in the second, moral or practical. In the union...
Numbers 12:10 cloud H6051 departed H5493 (H8804) tabernacle H168 Miriam H4813 leprous H6879 (H8794) snow H7950 Aaro
‘And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against them, and he departed, and the cloud removed from over the Tent. And, behold, Miriam was skin-diseased, as white as snow. And Aaron looked on Miriam, and,...
CONTENTS: Murmuring of Miriam and Aaron and the consequences. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Miriam. CONCLUSION: We have reason to be exceedingly cautious of saying or doing anything against the ser...
Numbers 12:1. _The Ethiopian woman;_ that is, the Cushite, the daughter of Jethro. Miriam and Aaron seem to have been offended because Moses had honourably received her as his wife. But Josephus affir...
_Miriam became leprous._ THE PUNISHMENT OF MIRIAM AND AARON I. The divine judgment because of the sin of Miriam and Aaron. 1. The punishment was inflicted by the Lord. 2. The punishment was approp...
_The Lord came down._ GOD’S VINDICATION OF MOSES There are several circumstances of the Lord’s proceedings laid down in the text. 1. As, first, His speed. By and by the Lord called them; so showing...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 12:1 Moses’ brother Aaron, the high priest, and his sister Miriam, a prophetess (Exodus 15:20), challenge his unique position. Their initial remarks, concerning Moses’ Cushite...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 12:9 Miriam and Aaron should have realized that Moses had a unique kind of access to God. Their lack of awareness prompts God’s ANGER. LEPROUS, LIKE SNOW. In the Bible, “lepros...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 12:1. _The Ethiopian woman_, &c. Heb.: “The woman, the Cushite.” This could not have been Zipporah, who was a Midianite, not a Cushite. And even if it be suppose...
EXPOSITION THE SEDITION AND PUNISHMENT OF MIRIAM (Numbers 12:1.). NUMBERS 12:1 AND MIRIAM AND AARON SPAKE AGAINST MOSES. While the people w
Now in chapter twelve, Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron began to murmur against Moses. He had taken an Ethiopian wife, which means that she was probably black-skinned. And they began to find faul...
From the tabernacle — Not from the whole tabernacle, but from that part, whither it was come, to that part which was directly over the mercy — seat, where it constantly abode. Leprous — She, and not A...