I just listened to a sermon on Hebrews 3, Moses faithful in God’s house as a servant, and it referred to his Ethiopian wife, which I’d forgotten about. Here’s the fruit of a bit of study I did.
In Numbers 12:1, Aaron and Miriam criticize Moses for his
Cushite wife. Cush was the normal bible
name for Ethiopia, then. Opinion is
mixed on this:
1 - how could Moses have had a second, foreign wife, if he
was faithful? They must have been talking
about Zipporah – maybe Cush was a geographical name for where Jethro lived.
2 - there’s no way you can make this wife be Zipporah. Moses had an Ethiopian wife, and God was fine
with it.
I go with #2. Besides
there being nothing wrong with an inter-racial marriage, God had singled out
Moses for leadership. Aaron and Miriam
were jealous, and just using this as an excuse in a popularity campaign against
him. God rebukes them for it.
This is a tactic we see all the time on our political
landscape today, and God says we should avoid it.
Don’t highlight a questionable-but-okay practice, to
throw shade on those you want to take down a peg or two.
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