The new moon; which was a sacred and festival time, as appears from Numbers 10:10, Numbers 28:11,14 2 Kings 4:23 Isaiah 66:23. But this may be understood either,
1. Generally of every new moon. Or rather,
2. Specially of that new moon, as the word may be rendered, which begun the seventh month; as may be gathered both from the following words, and by comparing this place with Leviticus 23:24 Numbers 29:1, where this very day is called a day of blowing of trumpets. In the time appointed, on our solemn feast day; or, for the day or time of our solemn festivity; whereby may be understood either,
1. The day of the new moon, on which the trumpets were blown for the celebration of that solemn time. Or,
2. The seventh month, which that new moon did introduce or begin, and in which, besides other solemnities, they kept the feast of tabernacles, which the Hebrew doctors call the feast by way of eminency, and Josephus affirms to have been the most sacred and the chief of all the Jewish feasts.