Numbers 10:1-10

The Silver Trumpets

1 The LORD spoke further to Moses, saying,

2 "Make yourself two trumpets of silver, of hammered work you shall make them; and you shall use them for ¹summoning the congregation and for having the camps set out.

3 "²When both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

4 "Yet if only one is blown, then the ³leaders, the heads of the divisions of Israel, shall assemble before you.

5 "But when you blow an alarm, the camps that are pitched ⁴on the east side shall set out.

6 "When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are pitched on ⁵the south side shall set out; an alarm is to be blown for them to set out.

7 "When convening the assembly, however, you shall blow without ⁶sounding an alarm.

8 "⁷The priestly sons of Aaron, moreover, shall blow the trumpets; and this shall be for you a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

9 "When you go to war in your land against the adversary who ⁸attacks you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be ⁹remembered before the LORD your God, and be saved from your enemies.

10 "Also in the day of your gladness and in your appointed feasts, and on the first days of your months, ¹⁰you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be as a reminder of you before your God. I am the LORD your God."

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Numbers 10:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 10

This chapter gives an account of the directions given for making two silver trumpets, and of the use of them, the ends and purposes for which they were to be made, Nu 10:1-10; and of the time of taking up of the cloud from the tabernacle, and of the removal of the camp of Israel from the wilderness of Sinai, and of the order of their march, Nu 10:11-28; when Moses most earnestly passed Hobab, his brother in law, to continue with him, Nu 10:29-32; and the chapter is closed with the prayer of Moses at the setting forward of the ark, and the resting of it, Nu 10:33-36.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 10

1. Isaiah 1:13
2. Jeremiah 4:5; Joel 2:15
3. Exodus 18:21; Numbers 1:16; Numbers 7:2
4. Numbers 10:14
5. Numbers 10:18
6. Joel 2:1
7. Numbers 31:6; Joshua 6:4; 2 Chronicles 13:12
8. Judges 2:18; 1 Samuel 10:18; Psalms 106:42
9. Genesis 8:1; Psalms 106:4
10. Psalms 81:3-5

Footnotes 3

[a]. Lit "thousands;" or "clans"
[b]. Lit "it"
[c]. Or "times"