Here is, I. God’s judgment upon Miriam (Num. 12:10): The cloud departed from off that part of the tabernacle , in token of God’s displeasure, and presently Miriam became leprous; when God goes, evil comes; expect no good when God departs. The leprosy was a disease often inflicted by the immediate hand of God as the punishment of some particular sin, as on Gehazi for lying, on Uzziah for invading t...