Moses Married a Colored Woman
What would Moses, the great lawgiver, say to you? Listen to the good book in Numbers 12:1. “And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.”
For this reviling, the Lord made Miriam leprous, and punished her, and Aaron acknowledged that he had sinned.
While on this subject, it may be interesting to specify some of the doings of the Ethiopians in ancient history. First, Moses married an Ethiopian woman in B. C. 1490, quite a number of years before any legislature had an opportunity to prevent it.
The Ethiopians must have flourished after the last mentioned date, because we read in II Kings 9, that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had come out to fight the Assyrians—quite a distance from Ethiopia—and the frightened Assyrian king besought the aid of Hezekiah, king of Judah. This happened in B. C. 710.
Again, in B. C. 957, we learn from II Chronicles 14:9, that Zerah, the Ethiopian, came out against Asa, king of Judah, with a million men and three hundred chariots. The scripture reads, “an host of a thousand thousand.”