Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Numbers 10:9
For examples of the employment of trumpets in war compare marginal references and 2 Chronicles 20:28. By employment of them was signified the dependence of God’s people on His aid.
For examples of the employment of trumpets in war compare marginal references and 2 Chronicles 20:28. By employment of them was signified the dependence of God’s people on His aid.
Verse Numbers 10:9. _IF YE GO TO WAR_] These trumpets shall be sounded for the purpose of collecting the people together, to deliberate about the war, and to implore the protection of God against thei...
8. THE TRUMPETS OF SILVER CHAPTER 10:1-10 _ 1. The silver trumpets (Numbers 10:1)_ 2. How they were to be used (Numbers 10:3) The silver trumpets were also given for guidance. They made known the m...
THE SILVER TRUMPETS. These were straight in shape and about Leviticus 18 or Leviticus 20 in. long (Ezra 3:10 *). The various signals given by them were distinguished partly by the number of the blasts...
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....
IF YE GO TO WAR IN YOUR LAND— Bishop Patrick observes, that as these trumpets were to be used in summoning the armies of Israel to go forth to battle; so, previously to that, in calling the people tog...
F. THE SILVER TRUMPETS (NUMBERS 10:1-10) TEXT Numbers 10:1. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2. Make these two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use th...
_AND IF YE GO TO WAR IN YOUR LAND AGAINST THE ENEMY THAT OPPRESSETH YOU, THEN YE SHALL BLOW AN ALARM WITH THE TRUMPETS; AND YE SHALL BE REMEMBERED BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND YE SHALL BE SAVED FROM...
10:9 enemy (b-12) _ Tzar_ . Or 'oppressor.'...
THE USE OF THE SILVER TRUMPETS This section, like the last, is connected with the breaking up of the camp, one of the uses of the silver trumpets being to give the signal for the departure....
IF YE GO TO WAR] see e.g. Numbers 31:6; 2 Chronicles 5:12....
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 10 THE TWO *TRUMPETS – NUMBERS 10:1-10 V1 The *LORD said to Moses, V2 ‘Make two *trumpets. Make them
AND IF YE GO TO WAR. — Better, _And when ye shall go to war._ In Numbers 31:6 we read that in the war against the Midianites, Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, had these trumpets of alarm (_hazozeroth_) i...
וְ כִֽי ־תָבֹ֨אוּ מִלְחָמָ֜ה בְּ אַרְצְכֶ֗ם ע
2. THE SILVER TRUMPETS Numbers 10:1 An air of antique simplicity is felt in the legislation regarding the two trumpets of silver, yet we are not in any way hindered from connecting the statute with t...
THE TRUMPETS SOUND THE MARCH Numbers 10:1 Each trumpet was made of a solid piece of silver. They fulfilled several purposes, summoning an assembly, sounding the march, gathering for battle. They are...
The use of trumpets in the history of the people is full of interest and here we find instructions concerning it. They were intended to call the people to attention, that led to obedience. The blast o...
_Your God, who will reward your obedience with victory._...
Remark how very gracious the LORD is in his promises. LORD! give me grace, to be always looking and crying unto thee, in all my warfare. 1 John 5:4....
It is impossible to look at this book ever so cursorily without feeling the difference of the atmosphere from that of Leviticus. And this is so much the more striking because it cannot be fairly doubt...
Chapter 10 speaks of the silver trumpets which served for calling the assembly of the people, and for the journeying of the camps, but which serve also for other purposes. It was the testimony of God,...
AND WHEN YE GO TO WAR IN YOUR LAND AGAINST THE ENEMY THAT OPPRESSETH YOU,.... That enters in to invade it, to besiege cities, and distress the inhabitants of it: THEN YE SHALL BLOW AN ALARM WITH THE...
_And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from...
_Ye shall be saved_ If you use this ordinance of God with trust and dependance upon God for help....
1 The vse of the siluer Trumpets. 11 The Israelites remoue from Sinai to Paran. 14 The order of their march. 29 Hobab is intreated by Moses not to leaue them. 33 The blessing of Moses at the remoo...
And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets, long-drawn blasts intended to call the people together and to inspire them with c...
THE USE OF THE SILVER TRUMPETS...
TWO SILVER TRUMPETS (vs.1-10) We have seen in the cloud and the fire the providential guidance of God over His people. Yet we are not left to depend totally upon this, for now the trumpets speak of t...
1-10 Here are directions concerning the public notices to be given the people by sound of trumpet. Their laws in every case were to be Divine, therefore, even in this matter Moses is directed. These...
Which was practised accordingly. See NUMBERS 31:6 2 CHRONICLES 13:12. YE SHALL BE SAVED FROM YOUR ENEMIES, if you use this ordinance of God with trust and dependence upon God for help, which condition...
"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them; that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of th...
Numbers 10:9 go H935 (H8799) war H4421 land H776 against H6862 oppresses H6887 (H8802) alarm H7321 ...
CHAPTER 10 THE SILVER TRUMPETS AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF THEIR JOURNEYING. The problem for any large company on the march in those days was communication. In the case of Israel this was partly resolved...
CONTENTS: The first march of the camp. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron's sons. CONCLUSION: Those who have given themselves up to the leading of God's Word and Spirit, steer a safe course and so long a...
Numbers 10:2. _Two trumpets,_ for the two sons of Aaron. We also read that one hundred and twenty priests had each of them a trumpet. 2 Chronicles 5:12. Numbers 10:10. _Ye shall blow with the trumpets...
_Make thee two trumpets of silver._ THE LAW OF THE SILVER TRUMPETS Revelation is to man as a trumpet-call from heaven; hence the prophets are often told to lift up their voices like a trumpet. The hu...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 10:1__ The trumpets signal when the different tribes are to set out (see vv. Numbers 10:5). They are also used to call the CONGREGATION (v
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 10:1. Instructions for signalling the movements of the camp are properly inserted here as one of the necessary preliminaries for the march which was about to co...
EXPOSITION THE SILVER TRUMPETS (Numbers 10:1). NUMBERS 10:1 AND THE LORD SPAKE. The command to make the silver trumpets is introduced here, because one principal use of them was connected with the o...
Then in chapter ten, he was ordered to make two silver trumpets. And these silver trumpets were to be used for calling an assembly of the people together, or they were to be used at the time of battle...
1 Corinthians 14:8; 1 Samuel 10:18; 2 Chronicles 13:14; Amos 3:6;...
Ye shall be saved — If you use this ordinance of God with trust and dependance upon God for help....