Numbers 12:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopiana woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. ”

• Numbers 12:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Miriam, as a prophetess (compare Exodus 15:20-21 ) 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 hea...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married (a) an Ethiopian woman. (a) Zipporah, Moses' wife, was a Midianite, and because Midian...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Numbers 12:1-16 (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 co...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Miriam. Named first to show she was first in the rebellion. See Numbers 12:10 . Compare Genesis 3:3 . Ethiopian . Zipporah. Hebrew. Cushite. Arabia was in the land of Cush: or Zipporah ( Exod...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  1. And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses. This relation is especially worthy of observation for many reasons. If Aaron and Miriam had always quietly and cordially supported the honor of t...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses - It appears that jealousy of...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses— Miriam is mentioned before Aaron, probably because she was the beginner of this sedition, and drew Aaron into it. It is uncertain what occasioned them to q...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. An Ethiopian woman, х haa'ishaah ( H802 ) ha-Kushiyt...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Ethiopian woman ] Heb. 'the Cushite woman.' This can hardly be Zipporah, who was a Midianite ( Exodus 2:16 ; Exodus 2:21 ). Moses, it appears, had married again. Marriage with the Canaanites wa...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  XII. (1) And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses. — Miriam appears to have been the leader in this insurrection against the authority of Moses. Her name occurs before that of Aaron, either as t...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE JEALOUSY OF MIRIAM AND AARON Numbers 12:1-16 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...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  God Protects Moses against Criticism Numbers 12:1-15 This Ethiopian wife may have been Zipporah, or some other woman whom Moses married after his first wife's death. That Moses, the great lawgi...

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• Numbers 12:1 - 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 hea...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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 lepros...

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• Numbers 12:1 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE LISTENING GOD ‘And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses … And the Lord heard it.’ Numbers 12:1-2 We have the ostensible cause of this ‘speaking against Moses’ in the first verse, the...

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• Numbers 12:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses ,.... Miriam is first mentioned, because she was first in the transgression, and so was only punished; Aaron was drawn into the sin by her, and he acknowledg...

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• Numbers 12:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. Ver. 1. And Miriam and Aaron spake. ] She is set first, because...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And Miriam Miriam seems to be first named, because she was the first mover of the sedition; wherefore she is more eminently punished. The Ethiopian Either, 1st, Zipporah, who is here called an Et...

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• Numbers 12:1 - L. 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 Mir...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Murmuring of Miriam and Aaron. B. C. 1490.       1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses be...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  NUMBERS CHAPTER 12 Miriam and Aaron murmur against Moses, Numbers 12:1-3 . God commandeth him, Aaron, and Miriam to come to the tabernacle, which they did, Numbers 12:4,5 . God rebuketh Aaron...

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• Numbers 12:1 - 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...

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• Numbers 12:1 - 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 af...

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• Numbers 12:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses. Miriam and Aaron’s sedition 1. The noblest disinterestedness will not preserve us from the shafts of envy. The poet has said, in regard to another virtue,...

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• Numbers 12:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE SEDITION AND PUNISHMENT OF MIRIAM ( Numbers 12:1-4 .). Numbers 12:1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses. While the people were encamped at Hazeroth (see...

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• Numbers 12:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses, they also became infected with the virus of discontent, because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman, a Cushit...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 2:16 ; Exodus 2:21 ; Exodus 34:16 ; Galatians 4:16 ; Genesis 24:3 ; Genesis 24:37 ; Genesis 26:34 ; Genesis 26:35 ; Genesis 27:46 ; Genesis 28:6-9 ; Genesis 34:14 ; Genesis 34:15 ;...

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• Numbers 12:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Miriam — Miriam seems to be first named, because she was the first mover of the sedition; wherefore she is more eminently punished. The Ethiopian — Either, Zipporah, who is here called an Ethiopian...

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