旧约 - 民数记(Numbers)第12章

Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite.
"Has the LORD spoken only through Moses?" they asked. "Hasn't he also spoken through us?" And the LORD heard this.
(Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)
At once the LORD said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, "Come out to the Tent of Meeting, all three of you." So the three of them came out.
Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the Tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When both of them stepped forward,
he said, "Listen to my words: "When a prophet of the LORD is among you, I reveal myself to him in visions, I speak to him in dreams.
But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house.
With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"
The anger of the LORD burned against them, and he left them.
When the cloud lifted from above the Tent, there stood Miriam--leprous, like snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had leprosy;
and he said to Moses, "Please, my lord, do not hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed.
Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother's womb with its flesh half eaten away."
So Moses cried out to the LORD, "O God, please heal her!"
The LORD replied to Moses, "If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back."
So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back.
After that, the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.
民数记第十二章   第 12 章 

  米利暗 

  民 12:1> 摩西娶的外邦女子是── 

  12:1 摩西头四十年生活在埃及王宫,所以没有娶犹太的妻子,在旷野他又生活了四十年。这里的女子不会是摩西的第一个妻子、米甸人西坡拉。古实人即埃提阿伯人;米利暗反对这宗亲事的原因不明。 

  民 12:1> 嫉妒在事奉中危害多多,作为领袖的当怎样面对? 

  12:1 人常常会争辩细微的分歧,把重大的问题放在一边。米利暗与亚伦埋怨摩西的事就是这样。他俩代表了祭司与先知,是以色列宗教信仰中的两大力量。这种争论源出他们嫉妒摩西的领导地位及影响力。他们找不到摩西的过错,就批评他所娶的妻子,不去正视自己的骄傲与嫉妒。你与别人的意见不同时,请问你是与别人争辩真正的问题,还是掩饰你对别人的人身攻击?如果你受到不公平的抨击,请记住这种抨击可能出于对方不敢面对事实。不要自己应付,将此事交给神,找出真相,求祂为你解决。 

  民 12:11> 我有过因愚昧和私欲的冲动而得罪神与人的事吗? 

  12:11 亚伦恳求摩西,不要将他与米利暗所犯的罪加在他们身上。在回顾以往的错误时,人容易承认一己的愚昧,但当人一心一意执行愚昧的计划时,很难要他承认其中有何不妥当。要避免愚昧的意念,就要先消除错误的思想与动机,米利暗与亚伦未能如此,后悔无穷。 

  民 12:14> 管教米利暗事件中,体现了神的怜悯和仁慈,你有过被管教蒙怜悯的经历吗? 

  12:14 往人脸上吐唾沫,被认为是对犯错之人最大的侮辱。主耶稣在世的时候,宗教领袖们曾吐唾沫在祂脸上侮辱祂(参太 26:67 )。米利暗自鸣得意的态度,不仅是反对摩西的权威,而且是不服神,所以受到神的惩罚。神使她生大麻疯,又吩咐将她关在营外七天,处罚已算非常宽大了。她父亲若吐唾沫在她脸上,她都要蒙羞七天,何况她得罪了神!管教米利暗之时,神再一次显出祂的怜悯。──《灵修版圣经注释》