“ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed. ”
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 12:1-16 (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...
kindled: with instant result. He: i.e. Jehovah.
9. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them. The expostulation is succeeded by punishment. God’s departure was a sign of immediate condemnation; because there was no need of any fu...
DISCOURSE: 153 AARON AND MIRIAM REPROVED Numbers 12:8-9 . Wherefore were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them: and he departed . W...
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed. No JFB commentary on this verse.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Alas! what can testify the LORD'S displeasure to a child of GOD equal to that of his departing, though but for a season, from him. The soul who in his spiritual exercises knows what this is, will bes...
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them ,.... Which might be visible by some outward token, as by lightning from the cloud, or, however, what follows was sufficient to show it: and he d...
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed. Ver. 9. And he departed. ] Yea, woe also to them when I depart from them; Hos 9:12 then all evils come in as by a sluice. The f...
He departed From the door of the tabernacle, in token of his great displeasure; not waiting for their answer. The removal of God's presence from us is the saddest token of his displeasure. And he n...
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...
4 And the L ORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out. 5 And the L ORD came down i...
From the door of the tabernacle, in token of his great displeasure, not waiting for their answer, and judging them unworthy of any further discourse.
‘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,...
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 12:1 . 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...
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...
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...
The Sin of Miriam and Aaron
Hosea 5:15 ; Numbers 11:1
He departed — From the door of the tabernacle, in token of his great displeasure, not waiting for their answer. The removal of God's presence from us, is the saddest token of his displeasure. And h...