Numbers 12:1

CONTENTS

This Chapter contains the relation of the further exercises of Moses. Miriam and Aaron join in speaking against Moses. GOD himself takes up the business, and Miriam is smitten with a leprosy. Moses intercedes for her. She is restored to her former health, but punished by being shut out seven days from the camp.

Numbers 12:1

If this Ethiopian woman was Zipporah, it is somewhat remarkable that the displeasure of Aaron and Miriam should begin only now. But it should seem that this was but the pretence, and not the real cause of their displeasure! Alas! what seeds of sin are in the heart even of GOD'S people! Certain it is, that both Aaron and Miriam were among the distinguished servants of the LORD. See in proof, Micah 6:4; Exodus 15:20. My soul! do not overlook, in such a striking example, the evidence it carries with it of universal corruption. Dearest JESUS! there is none but thou who art holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners! Hebrews 7:26. Aaron, though a priest, and an High Priest, corresponds to that character the apostle hath given of him, when he said, The law maketh men high priests which have infirmity. Hebrews 7:28.