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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Numbers 10:8

The sons of Aaron shall blow, to oblige them to the greater regard and observance, as if God himself had called them.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE SONS OF AARON - As the trumpets were emblematic of the voice of God, the priests only were to use them. At this time there were only two “sons of Aaron;” but in later times, when the number of pri...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SONS. Compare Leviticus 1:5....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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._ The sons of Aaron ... Neither the Levites nor any i...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND THE SONS OF AARON, THE PRIESTS, SHALL BLOW WITH THE TRUMPETS. — As Aaron had only two sons at this time, there was need only of two trumpets. In most of the places in which the word _hazozerah_ (t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ בְנֵ֤י אַהֲרֹן֙ הַ כֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים יִתְקְע֖וּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall (d) blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations. (d) So that only the priests must blow the trumpe...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Priests. God's officers and heralds. Curtius (3) observes, that among the Persians at day-break, the signal was given from the king's tent by sound of trumpet._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe another striking similitude. The sons of Aaron were to be the trumpeters. The ministers of JESUS are his heralds, and no other. That is an awful Scripture of the LORD by the prophet. It were w...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE SONS OF AARON THE PRIESTS SHALL BLOW WITH THE TRUMPETS,.... Eleazar and Ithamar, the one with the one and the other with the other, there being at first but two, as there were but two priests;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 8. _Shall blow with the trumpets._] A trumpeter,...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets, it was a function which could be discharged by them only; AND THEY SHALL BE TO YOU FOR AN ORDINANCE FOREVER THROUGHOUT YOUR GENERATION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE USE OF THE SILVER TRUMPETS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Numbers 10:8 sons H1121 Aaron H175 priests H3548 blow H8628 (H8799) trumpets H2689 ordinance H2708 forever H5769 gener

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 15:24; 1 Chronicles 16:6; 2 Chronicles 13:12; Joshua 6:4;...

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