Joshua 6:4

trumpets of rams" horns Rather, trumpets of soundings, or, of jubilee; "seuen trompes, vhose use is in the jubile." Not the long straight trumpets generally used, but the same kind that were to be employed on the first day of the seventh month (Leviticus 23:24), and to announce the year of Jubilee (Leviticus 25:9). This instrument was curved, and would be more accurately rendered " cornet, " as in 1 Chronicles 15:28; 2 Chronicles 15:14; Psalms 98:6; Hosea 5:8; Daniel 3:5.

seven Observe the significance here of the number: sevenpriests; sevenhorns; sevendays of compassing the walls; sevenrepetitions of it on the seventhday. The influence of the number "seven" was not restricted to the Hebrews. It prevailed among the Persians (Esther 1:10; Esther 1:14), among the ancient Indians, to a certain extent among the Greeks and Romans, and probably among all nations where the week of seven days was established, as in Egypt, Arabia, China. Amongst the Hebrews seven days were appointed as the length of the Feasts of Passover and Tabernacles; seven days for the ceremonies of the consecration of priests; seven victims were to be offered on any special occasion; and at the ratification of a treaty, the notion of sevenwas embodied in the very term signifying to swear, literally meaning to do seven times(Genesis 21:28). The number seven was thus impressed with the seal of sanctity as the symbol of all connected with the Deity, with the subordinate notions of perfection or completeness. See Smith's Bibl. Dict. Art. "Seven."