Numbers 12:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

Numbers 12:10 - 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...
Numbers 12:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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 tabe...
Numbers 12:10 - 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...
Numbers 12:10 - 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.
Numbers 12:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the 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. Miriam became leprous - It is like...
Numbers 12:10 - 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 significati...
Numbers 12:10 - 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...
Numbers 12:10 - 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 32:22-25 ). The controversy arose...
Numbers 12:10 - 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...
Numbers 12:10 - 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...
Numbers 12:10 - 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...
Numbers 12:10 - 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...
Numbers 12:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 ful...
Numbers 12:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 ta...
Numbers 12:10 - 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....
Numbers 12:10 - 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 q...
Numbers 12:10 - 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...
Numbers 12:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Miriam Smitten with Leprosy. B. C. 1490. 10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernac...
Numbers 12:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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-sea...
Numbers 12:10 - 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,...
Numbers 12:10 - 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...
Numbers 12:10 - 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...
Numbers 12:10 - 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 sh...
Numbers 12:10 - 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...
Numbers 12:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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;...
Numbers 12:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 26:19-21 ; 2 Kings 15:5 ; 2 Kings 5:27 ; Deuteronomy 24:9 ; Exodus 33:7-10 ; Ezekiel 10:18 ; Ezekiel 10:19 ; Ezekiel 10:4 ; Ezekiel 10:5 ; Hosea 9:12 ; Leviticus 13:2 ; Levit...
Numbers 12:10 - 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 no...

Numbers 12:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 12:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Numbers 12:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 12:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 12:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 12:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 12:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 12:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 12:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 12:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 12:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 12:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 12:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 12:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 12:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Numbers 12:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 12:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 12:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 12:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 12:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 12:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 12:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 12:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 12:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 12:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 12:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 12:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes