Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Numbers 12:12
Let her not be as one (g) dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
(g) As a child that is stillborn, as if it is only the skin.
Let her not be as one (g) dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
(g) As a child that is stillborn, as if it is only the skin.
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...
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
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...
DEAD. stillborn. THE FLESH. The Primitive Text lead "our flesh". This is one of the eighteen emendations of the Sopherim (see App-33), to avoid what was supposed to he derogatory to Aaron. HIS MOTHE...
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...
_AND AARON SAID UNTO MOSES, ALAS, MY LORD, I BESEECH THEE, LAY NOT THE SIN UPON US, WHEREIN WE HAVE DONE FOOLISHLY, AND WHEREIN WE HAVE SINNED._ On the humble and penitential submission of Aaron, Mos...
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...
Leprosy was a living death, and contact with a leper involved the same defilement as with a dead body; see Leviticus 13:45....
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
LET HER NOT BE AS ONE DEAD. — This is another of the places in which the Scribes are said to have altered the text. The original is said to have been as follows: — _Let her not be as one dead, who pro...
אַל ־נָ֥א תְהִ֖י כַּ † מֵּ֑ת אֲשֶׁ֤ר...
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....
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...
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...
_Dead; consumed by leprosy, or incapable of performing the duties of life. (Menochius) --- Hebrew, " an abortive, whose flesh is half consumed before he comes forth from his mother's womb." Septuagint...
Observe, the sense Aaron had of the leprosy that he thought her as one that is dead. Such, but only in an infinitely higher degree, is the leprosy of the soul. All that are under it are void of spirit...
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...
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...
LET HER NOT BE AS ONE DEAD,.... As she was in a ceremonial sense, being to be shut up and excluded from the society of people, and as defiling by touching as a dead carcase; and, in a natural sense, h...
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb. Ver. 12. _As one dead._] As "free among the dead," free of that company....
_Lay not the sin_ Let not the guilt and punishment of this sin rest upon us, upon her in this kind, upon me in any other kind, but pray to God for the pardon and removal of it. _As one dead_ Because p...
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...
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb, a still-born child, half rotted. The loathsome picture gives some idea of the condition in which...
Miriam's Leprosy Breaks out and is Healed...
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...
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...
AS ONE DEAD; either naturally, because part of her flesh was putrefied and dead, and not to be restored but by the mighty power of God; or morally, because she was cut off from all converse with other...
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...
Numbers 12:12 dead H4994 H4191 (H8801) flesh H1320 half H2677 consumed H398 (H8735) out H3318 ...
‘Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.' He begged that she might not be as a stillborn baby coming from its mother's womb wri...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
EXPOSITION THE SEDITION AND PUNISHMENT OF MIRIAM (Numbers 12:1.). NUMBERS 12:1 AND MIRIAM AND AARON SPAKE AGAINST MOSES. While the people w
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...
1 Corinthians 15:8; 1 Timothy 5:6; Colossians 2:13; Ephesians 2:1;...
As one dead — Because part of her flesh was putrefied and dead, and not to be restored but by the mighty power of God. Like a still — born child, that hath been for some time dead in the womb, which w...