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, partly by their character, some being alarms (martial notes, Numbers 10:9), others not. Instances of their use occur in Numbers 31:6; 1 Chronicles 13:8; 1 Chronicles 15:24; 2 Chronicles 13:12 f., Ezekiel 3:10 1Ma 4:40; 1Ma_5:33.

Numbers 10:6. The LXX adds that when a third and a fourth alarm were blown, the camps on the W. and the N. were to move.

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