Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
MIRIAM'S AND AARON'S SEDITION. (Numbers 12:1-9)
an Ethiopian woman—Hebrew, "a Cushite woman"—Arabia was usually called in Scripture the land of Cush, its inhabitants being descendants of that son of Ham (see on Exodus 2:15) and being accounted generally a vile and contemptible race (see on Amos 9:7). The occasion of this seditious outbreak on the part of Miriam and Aaron against Moses was the great change made in the government by the adoption of the seventy rulers [Numbers 11:16]. Their irritating disparagement of his wife (who, in all probability, was Zipporah [Exodus 2:21], and not a second wife he had recently married) arose from jealousy of the relatives, through whose influence the innovation had been first made (Exodus 18:13-26), while they were overlooked or neglected. Miriam is mentioned before Aaron as being the chief instigator and leader of the sedition.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Numbers 12:1:
Exodus 2:16-22
Exodus 15:20
Numbers 12:1
Numbers 16:4
Habakkuk 3:7
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