NUMBERS - CHAPTER 12
NUMBERS - CHAPTER 12
How deep the instruction in this chapter! “The Lord heard” — if we knew always how to leave it to Him! “The man Moses was meek” (poor in spirit) “above all the men on the face of the earth” — he left it all there — “The Lord heard”. It is all beautiful.
— 10. The Lord, so to speak, spat in her face — how terrible! Yet there was much grace mixed with it all.
— 11. Miriam comes first in speaking against Moses (verse 1) — Aaron is the first to confess, and owns his own fault with her in it. It is the same word in Deuteronomy 8:2, “he humbled them and proved them, to know what was in their hearts”.