Numbers Chapter 12

Numbers 12  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 4
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 Deut. 8:2,2And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. (Deuteronomy 8:2) " he humbled them and proved them, to know what was in their hearts."