Numbers 10:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

two: here only two. Later, 120 (2 Chronicles 5:12).

trumpets. These were of two principal kinds: those called chazozerah, made of silver, and straight; the other, shophar,. horn. These must be distinguished. The other words are yobel,. jubilee horn (Exodus 19:16); and tako'a, the blast of. trumpet (Ezekiel 7:14).

of. whole piece. of beaten work.

use them: for four purposes: (1) assembly; (2) journeying; (3) for war; (4) for the feasts.

assembly. whole congregation:. e. in its civil character.

Numbers 10:2

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.