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Bilangan 12:12

Janganlah kiranya dibiarkan dia sebagai anak gugur, yang pada waktu keluar dari kandungan ibunya sudah setengah busuk dagingnya."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aaron;   Forgiveness;   Judgments;   Minister, Christian;   Miracles;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Miriam;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Healing;   Miriam;   Moses;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Abortion;   Clean, Unclean;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hazeroth;   Leprosy;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Leper;   Uzziah;   Zebulun;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Meekness;   Miriam;   Moses;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron;   Clean and Unclean;   Miriam;   Numbers, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Miriam ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Miriam;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mir'iam;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Flesh;   Miriam;   Moses;   Text of the Old Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Midrashim, Smaller;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for May 15;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Janganlah kiranya dibiarkan dia sebagai anak gugur, yang pada waktu keluar dari kandungan ibunya sudah setengah busuk dagingnya."
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Jangan apalah ia seperti guguran, yang dagingnya sudah separuh busuk pada masa ia keluar dari dalam rahim ibunya!

Contextual Overview

10 And the cloude departed from the tabernacle, and beholde Miriam was become leprous, as it were snowe: And Aaron looked vpon Miriam, and beholde, she was leprous. 11 And Aaron saide vnto Moyses: Alas my Lorde, I beseche thee put not the sinne vpon vs whiche we haue foolishlye committed and sinned. 12 Oh, let her not be as one dead, of who the fleshe is halfe consumed when he commeth out of his mothers whom. 13 And Moyses cryed vnto the Lorde, saying: Heale her nowe, O God, I beseche thee. 14 And ye Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: If her father had spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seue dayes? Let her be shut out of the hoast seuen dayes, and after that, let her be receaued in againe. 15 And Miriam was shut out of the hoast seuen dayes: and the people remoued not, tyll she was brought in agayne. 16 And afterwarde the people remoued from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wyldernesse of Pharan.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as one dead: Psalms 88:4, Psalms 88:5, Ephesians 2:1-5, Colossians 2:13, 1 Timothy 5:6

of whom: Job 3:16, Psalms 58:8, 1 Corinthians 15:8

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:2 - the plague of leprosy Job 13:28 - And he

Cross-References

Genesis 12:8
And remouyng thence vnto a mountayne that was eastwarde from Bethel, he pitched his tent, hauyng Bethel on the west syde, & Hai on the east: and there he buyldyng an aulter vnto the Lorde, dyd call vpon the name of the Lorde.
Genesis 12:10
[And] the there was a famine in that lande, and therfore went Abram downe into Egypt, that he myght soiourne there, for there was a greeuons famine in the lande.
Genesis 20:11
Abraha aunswered: For I thought [thus] surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they shal slaye me for my wyues sake.
Genesis 26:7
And the men of the place asked [him] of his wyfe. And he sayde, she is my sister: for he feared to say, she is my wyfe, lest the men of the place shoulde haue kylled hym, because of Rebecca, whiche was beautifull to the eye.
1 Samuel 27:1
And Dauid sayd in his heart, I shall perishe one day by the hand of Saul: therefore is there nothing better for me, then to flee and saue my self in the land of the Philistines, and Saul shall ceasse and seeke me no more in all the coastes of Israel, and so shall I escape out of his hand.
Proverbs 29:25
He that feareth men shall haue a fall: but who so putteth his trust in the Lorde, is without daunger.
Matthew 10:28
And feare ye not them, which kyll the body, but are not able to kyll the soule. But rather feare hym, which is able to destroy both soule and body in hell.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, her flesh, by the disease upon her, was become as dead flesh, putrid and rotten, and unless miraculously cured it would issue in her death:

of whom the flesh is half consumed, when he cometh out of his mother's womb; like an abortive, or one stillborn, that has been dead some time in its mother's womb; and therefore when brought forth its flesh is almost wasted away, or at least half consumed: and in such a plight and condition was Miriam already, or quickly would be, through the force of her disease.

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 head of the whole nation. But instead of being grateful for these high dignities they challenged the special vocation of Moses and the exclusive authority which God had assigned to him. Miriam was the instigator, from the fact that her name stands conspicuously first Numbers 12:1, and that the punishment Numbers 12:10 fell on her alone. She probably considered herself as supplanted, and that too by a foreigner. Aaron was misled this time by the urgency of his sister, as once before Exodus 32:0 by that of the people.

Numbers 12:1

The Ethiopian woman whom he had married - (Hebrew, “Cushite,” compare Genesis 2:13; Genesis 10:6) It is likely that Zipporah Exodus 2:21 was dead, and that Miriam in consequence expected to have greater influence than ever with Moses. Her disappointment at his second marriage would consequently be very great.

The marriage of Moses with a woman descended from Ham was not prohibited, so long as she was not of the stock of Canaan (compare Exodus 34:11-16); but it would at any time have been offensive to that intense nationality which characterized the Jews. The Christian fathers note in the successive marriage of Moses with a Midianite and an Ethiopian a foreshadowing of the future extension to the Gentiles of God’s covenant and its promises (compare Psalms 45:9 ff; Song of Solomon 1:4 ff); and in the complaining of Miriam and Aaron a type of the discontent of the Jews because of such extension: compare Luke 15:29-30.

Numbers 12:2

Hath the Lord ... - i. e. Is it merely, after all, by Moses that the Lord hath spoken?

Numbers 12:3

The man Moses was very meek - In this and in other passages in which Moses no less unequivocally records his own faults (compare Numbers 20:12 ff; Exodus 4:24 ff; Deuteronomy 1:37), there is the simplicity of one who bare witness of himself, but not to himself (compare Matthew 11:28-29). The words are inserted to explain how it was that Moses took no steps to vindicate himself, and why consequently the Lord so promptly intervened.

Numbers 12:8

Mouth to mouth - i. e. without the intervention of any third person or thing: compare the marginal references.

Even apparently - Moses received the word of God direct from Him and plainly, not through the medium of dream, vision, parable, dark saying, or such like; compare the marginal references.

The similitude of the Lord shall he behold - But, “No man hath seen God at any time,” says John (John 1:18 : compare 1 Timothy 6:16, and especially Exodus 33:20 ff). It was not therefore the Beatific Vision, the unveiled essence of the Deity, which Moses saw on the one hand. Nor was it, on the other hand, a mere emblematic representation (as in Ezekiel 1:26 ff, Daniel 7:9), or an Angel sent as a messenger. It was the Deity Himself manifesting Himself so as to be cognizable to mortal eye. The special footing on which Moses stood as regards God is here laid down in detail, because it at once demonstrates that the supremacy of Moses rested on the distinct appointment of God, and also that Miriam in contravening that supremacy had incurred the penalty proper to sins against the theocracy.

Numbers 12:12

As one dead - leprosy was nothing short of a living death, a poisoning of the springs, a corrupting of all the humors, of life; a dissolution little by little of the whole body, so that one limb after another actually decayed and fell away. Compare the notes at Leviticus 13:0.

Numbers 12:13

Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee - Others render these words: “Oh not so; heal her now, I beseech Thee.”

Numbers 12:14

If her father ... - i. e. If her earthly parent had treated her with contumely (compare Deuteronomy 25:9) she would feel for a time humiliated, how much more when God has visited her thus?


 
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