Num 10:1-10, Psa 81:3, Isa 27:13, 1Cor 15:52, 1Th 4:16 | TSK | STEP | The use of the silver trumpets. The Israelites remove from Sinai to Paran. The order of their march. Hobab is entreated by Moses not to leave them. The blessing of Moses at the removing and resting of the ark.

Numbers 10:1-10

1 The use of the silver trumpets.

11 The Israelites remove from Sinai to Paran.

14 The order of their march.

29 Hobab is entreated by Moses not to leave them.

33 The blessing of Moses at the removing and resting of the ark.

two trumpets.The necessity of such instruments will at once appear, when the amazing extent of this army is considered. There were various kinds of trumpets among the ancients, of different forms and materials, as Eustathius shews on Homer, where he mentions six; the second of which was [stroggule,] turned up round, like a ram's horn; which he says the Egyptians used (from being invented by Osiris) when they assembled the people to their sacrifices. But in opposition to that form, Moses commands these to be made long, in the shape of those used at present. So Josephus informs us, who says they were near a cubit long; the tube of the thickness of a common pipe or flute; the mouth no wider than just to admit blowing into them; and their ends wide like those of a modern trumpet.

2Ki 12:13; 2Ch 5:12

of a whole piece.

Ex 25:18,31; Eph 4:5

the calling.

7; Ps 81:3; 89:15; Isa 1:13; Ho 8:1; Joe 1:14

Jer 4:5; Joe 2:15,16

1:4-16; 7:2; Ex 18:21; De 1:15

blow.

6,7; Isa 58:1; Joe 2:1

camps.

2:3-9

ye blow.A single alarm was a signal for the eastward division to march; two such alarms the signal for the south; and probably three for the west, and four for the North. There appears therefore, a deficiency in the Hebrew Text, which is thus supplied by the LXX.: [kai salpieite semasian triten, kai exarousin ai parembolai ai paremballousai para thalassan. kai salpieite semasian tetarten, kai exarousin ai parembolai ai paremballousai pros bomran.] "And when ye blow a third alarm, or signal, the camps on the west shall march; and when ye blow a fourth alarm, the camps on the north shall march." This addition, however, is not acknowledged by the Samaritan, nor any other version than the Coptic, nor any MS. yet collated.

the camps.

2:10-16

ye shall blow.

3,4

sound.

Joe 2:1

31:6; Jos 6:4-16; 1Ch 15:24; 16:6; 2Ch 13:12-15

if ye go.

31:6; Jos 6:5; 2Ch 13:14

oppresseth.

Jud 2:18; 3:27; 4:2,3; 6:9,34; 7:16-21; 10:8,12; 1Sa 10:18

Ps 106:42