Num 10:10, 29:1-6, 1Ch 15:28, 2Ch 5:13, Ezr 3:6, Psa 81:1-4, 98:6 | TSK | STEP

Numbers 10:10

in the day.

29:1; Le 23:24; 25:9,10; 1Ch 15:24,28; 16:42; 2Ch 5:12,13; 7:6

2Ch 29:26,28; Ezr 3:10; Ne 12:35; Ps 81:3; 89:15; 98:5,6; 150:3

Isa 27:13; 55:1-4; Mt 11:28; 1Co 15:52; 1Th 4:16,18; Re 22:17

a memorial.

9; Ex 28:29; 30:16; Jos 4:7; Ac 10:4; 1Co 11:24-26

Numbers 29:1-6

1 The offering at the feast of trumpets;

7 at the day of afflicting their souls;

12 and on the eight days of the feast of tabernacles.

the seventh.That is, the month Tisri, the seventh month of their ecclesiastical year, but the first of their civil year, answering to our September. This, which was their new year's day, was a time of great festivity, and ushered in by the blowing of trumpets; whence it was also called the feast of blowing the trumpets. In imitation of this Jewish festival, different nations began the new year with sacrifices and festivity. The ancient Egyptians did so; and the Persians also celebrated their {nawee rooz,} or new year's day, which they held on the vernal equinox, and which "lasted ten days, during which all ranks seemed to participate in one general joy. The rich sent presents to the poor; all were dressed in their holiday clothes; all kept open house; and religious processions, music, dancing, a species of theatrical exhibition, rustic sports, and other pastimes, presented a continued round of varied amusement. Even the dead, and the ideal beings were not forgotten; rich viands being placed on the tops of houses and high towers, on the flavour of which the {Peris,} and spirits of their departed heroes and friends, were supposed to feast." After the Mohammedan conquest of Persia, the celebration of this period sensibly declined, and at last totally ceased, till the time of Jelaladdin (about A.D. 1082), who, coming to the crown at the vernal equinox, re-established the ancient festival, which has ever since been celebrated with pomp and acclamations.

Le 23:24,25; Ezr 3:6; Ne 7:73

the first day of the month.The monthly sacrifices were regulated by the new moons; and it is probable that the solemn sacrifices were appointed by God, to prevent the idolatry which was usual among the heathen at this period; who expressed the most extravagant rejoicings on the first appearance of the new moon. Moses, however, used the return of the moon only as one of the most natural and convenient measures of time; and appointed sacrifices to Jehovah, to prevent the Israelites from falling into the idolatries of their heathen neighbours. In the serene climate of Arabia and Judea, its first faint crescent is, for the most part, visible to all.

blowing.

10:1-10; 1Ch 15:28; Ps 81:3; 89:15; Isa 27:13; Zec 9:14

Mr 16:15,16; Ro 10:14-18; 15:16-19

8,36; 28:19,27; Heb 10:10-14

28:15,22,30

the burnt.

28:11-15

the daily.

28:3-8; Ex 29:38-42; Le 6:9

according.

18,21; 9:14; 15:11,12,24; Ezr 3:4

1 Chronicles 15:28

brought up.

2Sa 6:15

with shouting.

16; 13:8; 2Ch 5:12,13; Ezr 3:10,11; Ps 47:1-5; 68:25; 98:4-6

Ps 150:3-5

the cornet.Jerome on Ho 5:8 says this instrument is properly called in Greek [keratine,] from [keras ,] a horn. The trumpets were, according to Josephus, made of metal, and about a cubit in length. See Note on Nu 10:2.

2 Chronicles 5:13

as one.

Ps 95:1,2; 100:1,2; Isa 52:8; Jer 32:39; Ac 4:32; Ro 15:6

Re 5:8-14

with the trumpets.

Ps 68:25,26

he is good.

7:3; 20:21; 1Ch 16:34-41; Ezr 3:11; Ps 136:1-26; Jer 33:11

then the house.

Ex 40:34,35; 1Ki 8:10-12

Ezra 3:6

the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.Heb. the temple of the Lord was not yet founded.

Psalms 81:1-4

1 An exhortation to a solemn praising of God.

4 God challenges that duty by reason of his benefits.

8 God, exhorting to obedience, complains of their disobedience, which proves their own hurt.

A.M. 3489. B.C. 515. (Title.) Gittith.

8:1; *title

A Psalm.Some suppose this Psalm to have been composed to be sung at the feast of Trumpets, before the time of David; and others think it was written at the removal of the ark to Mount Zion; but the most probable opinion is, that it was sung at the dedication of the second temple.

of Asaph. or, for Asaph.

Sing.

67:4; Jer 31:7

our strength.

18:1,2; 28:7; 52:7; Php 4:13

make.

33:1-3; 46:1-7; 66:1; 100:1,2

the God.

46:11; Ge 50:17; Mt 22:32

92:3; 95:1,2; 149:1-3; Mr 14:26; Eph 5:19; Col 3:16; Jas 5:13

Blow.

98:6; Nu 10:1-9; 1Ch 15:24; 16:6,42; 2Ch 5:12; 13:12,14