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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Numbers 12:10

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 of leprosy, unless thou wash me clean in thy blood? It was the office of the priest to look upon the leper, and determine the disease. Think how Aaron felt, who though not partaking in the punishment, as he might justly have done, was conscious of his partaking in the sin. Here again let us be led to behold the preciousness of him who alone taketh away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 2 Corinthians 5:21.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הֶ עָנָ֗ן סָ֚ר מֵ עַ֣ל הָ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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._]...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Miriam's Leprosy Breaks out and is Healed...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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,...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 12:10 cloud H6051 departed H5493 (H8804) tabernacle H168 Miriam H4813 leprous H6879 (H8794) snow H7950 Aaro

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE SEDITION AND PUNISHMENT OF MIRIAM (Numbers 12:1.). NUMBERS 12:1 AND MIRIAM AND AARON SPAKE AGAINST MOSES. While the people w

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 26:19; 2 Kings 15:5; 2 Kings 5:27; Deuteronomy 24:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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