Numbers 10
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Introduction
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.
Verse 2
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 the camps.
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.
2 Kings 12:13; 2 Chronicles 5:12
of a whole piece
Exodus 25:18,31; Ephesians 4:5
the calling
7; Psalms 81:3; 89:15; Isaiah 1:13; Hosea 8:1; Joel 1:14
Verse 3
And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Jeremiah 4:5; Joel 2:15,16
Verse 4
And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
1:4-16; 7:2; Exodus 18:21; Deuteronomy 1:15
Verse 5
When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.
blow
6,7; Isaiah 58:1; Joel 2:1
camps
2:3-9
Verse 6
When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
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
Verse 7
But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
ye shall blow
3,4
sound
Joel 2:1
Verse 8
And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.
31:6; Joshua 6:4-16; 1 Chronicles 15:24; 16:6; 2 Chronicles 13:12-15
Verse 9
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 your enemies.
if ye go
31:6; Joshua 6:5; 2 Chronicles 13:14
oppresseth
Judges 2:18; 3:27; 4:2,3; 6:9,34; 7:16-21; 10:8,12; 1 Samuel 10:18; Psalms 106:42
then ye shall
Isaiah 18:3; 58:1; Jeremiah 4:5,19,21; 6:1,17; Ezekiel 7:14; 33:3-6; Hosea 5:8; Amos 3:6; Zephaniah 1:16; 1 Corinthians 14:8
remembered
Genesis 8:1; Psalms 106:4; 136:23; Luke 1:70-74
Verse 10
Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
in the day
29:1; Leviticus 23:24; 25:9,10; 1 Chronicles 15:24,28; 16:42; 2 Chronicles 5:12,13; 7:6; 2 Chronicles 29:26,28; Ezra 3:10; Nehemiah 12:35; Psalms 81:3; 89:15; 98:5,6; 150:3; Isaiah 27:13; 55:1-4; Matthew 11:28; 1 Corinthians 15:52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16,18; Revelation 22:17
a memorial
9; Exodus 28:29; 30:16; Joshua 4:7; Acts 10:4; 1 Corinthians 11:24-26
Verse 11
And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.
An
Ex. Is 2. Ijar. on. The Israelites had lain encamped in the wilderness of Sinai about eleven months and twenty days (comp. Ex 19:1); and they now received the order of God to decamp, and proceed to the promised land: the Samaritan, therefore, introduces at this place, nearly the words of De 1:6-8: "And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount; turn, and take your journey, etc."
1:1; 9:1,5,11; Exodus 40:2
the cloud
9:17-23