Especially since those of other nations were known to lead God's people astray, such as King Solomon. Although God did use Gentiles throughout the Old Testament as part of his plan (Ruth, Asenath, Rahab, etc.) the Israelites were not always so keen on these unions happening. We don't know if Tharbis followed Moses when he fled from Egypt and toward Midian, but the marriage was well-known enough to make Miriam and Aaron question Moses' leadership. There, Tharbis falls in love with him, and they get married. No sooner was the agreement made, but it took effect immediately: and when Moses had cut off the Ethiopians, he gave thanks to God, and consummated his marriage, and led the Egyptians back to their own land."Īpparently, Moses, before he flees to Midian, makes war with the Ethiopians. He thereupon accepted the offer, on condition she would procure the delivering up of the city and gave her the assurance of an oath to take her to his wife: and that when he had once taken possession of the city he would not break his oath to her. "However, while Moses was uneasy at the army’s lying idle, (for the enemies durst not come to a battel,) this accident happened Tharbis was the daughter of the King of the Ethiopians: she happened to see Moses, as he led the army near to the walls, and fought with great courage: and admiring the subtilty of his undertakings, and believing him to be the author of the Egyptian success, when they had before despaired of recovering their liberty and to be the occasion of the great danger the Ethiopians were in, when they had before boasted of their great atchievements, she fell deeply in love with him: and upon the prevalency of that passion, sent to him the most faithful of all her servants to discourse with him upon their marriage. We can go to extrabiblical sources like Josephus who claim that Moses made a pit stop in Cush before he got to the land of Midian, where he married Tharbis. Sadly, because Scripture never lists the Cushite woman Tharbis by name, we don't have anything to go off of biblically. We'll explore the possibility of Moses' second wife Tharbis, the evidence against it, and why this matters to us today. So did Tharbis exist, this Cushite woman? Or was Zipporah the woman they were referring to in these verses, even though Midian is nowhere near Cush?
#MOSES USED THE IBIS TO HELP HIM DEFEAT THE ETHIOPIANS SKIN#
Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease." When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam’s skin was leprous-it became as white as snow. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?” The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he left them.
With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles he sees the form of the Lord. But this is not true of my servant Moses he is faithful in all my house. When the two of them stepped forward, he said, “Listen to my words: “When there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams. Then the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.) At once the Lord said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, “Come out to the tent of meeting, all three of you.” So the three of them went out. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?” And the Lord heard this. “Has the Lord spoken only through Moses?” they asked. "Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite. Scripture never lists Tharbis by name, and the closest evidence we have to her comes from Numbers 12:1-10.
0 kommentar(er)
