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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Numbers 12:9

And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them; and He departed. Having called them to account, having rebuked them for their presumption, the Lord removed His presence from them, preparatory to inflicting some form of punishment upon them. The entire worship was thus interrupted, the entire machinery of the cultus came to a standstill. God Himself is the Judge between His servants and those that dare to oppose their own notions to the precepts of the Lord. It is a dangerous thing to challenge the authority of such as have the Word of the Lord on their side.

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See also Numbers 12:9 in other biblical comments:

  • 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

    KINDLED: with instant result. HE: i.e. Jehovah....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 153 AARON AND MIRIAM REPROVED Numbers 12:8. _Wherefore were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them: and he departed_. WHEN men...

  • 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 ANGER OF THE LORD WAS KINDLED AGAINST THEM; AND HE DEPARTED._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

  • 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

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּֽחַר אַ֧ף יְהוָ֛ה בָּ֖ם וַ יֵּלַֽךְ

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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 best...

  • 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 Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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 further que...

  • 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 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 DEPAR...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 fin...

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

    _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 ne...

  • 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...

  • 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

    1-9 The patience of Moses was tried in his own family, as well as by the people. The pretence was, that he had married a foreign wife; but probably their pride was hurt, and their envy stirred up, by...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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....

  • 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 12:9 anger H639 LORD H3068 aroused H2734 (H8799) departed H3212 (H8799) Numbers 11:1

  • 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

    _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

    NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 12:9 Miriam and Aaron should have realized that Moses had a unique kind of access to God. Their lack of awareness prompts God’s ANGER. LEPROUS, LIKE SNOW. In the Bible, “lepros...

  • 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

    Hosea 5:15; Numbers 11:1...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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