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.”