Numbers 10:8

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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
sons	וּבְנֵ֤י u.ve.Nei	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural construct
Aaron	אַהֲרֹן֙ 'a.ha.Ron	H175	Aharon · proper noun, a man's name
priests	הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים ha.Ko.ha.Nim	H3548	literally one officiating · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
blow	יִתְקְע֖וּ yit.ke.'U	H8628	to clatter · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
trumpets	בַּֽחֲצֹצְר֑וֹת ba.cha.tzo.tze.Rot	H2689	a trumpet (from its sundered or quavering note) · preposition + noun, common feminine plural absolute
ordinance	לְחֻקַּ֥ת le.chu.Kat	H2708	an enactment · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
ever	עוֹלָ֖ם o.Lam	H5769	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
generations	לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶֽם le.do.ro.tei.Khem	H1755	properly · preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural

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Cross-references

Numbers 31:6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instru…
Joshua 6:4-16 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and th…
1 Chronicles 15:24 And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets…
1 Chronicles 16:6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
2 Chronicles 13:12-15 And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel,…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Numbers 10:1-10

We have here directions concerning the public notices that were to be given to the people upon several occasions by sound of trumpet. In a thing of this nature, one would think, Moses needed not to have been taught of God: his own reason might teach him the conveniency of trumpets; but the constitution of Israel was to be in every thing divine, and therefore even in this matter, small as it seems. Moses is here directed, 1. About the making of them. They must be made of silver; not cast but of beaten work (as some read it), the matter and shape, no doubt, very fit for the purpose. He was now ordered to make but two, because there were but two priests to use them. But in Solomon's time we rea…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 10:8

the sons of Aaron the priests shall blow with the trumpets, &c.--Neither the Levites nor any in the common ranks of the people could be employed in this office of signal giving. In order to attract greater attention and more faithful observance, it was reserved to the priests alone, as the Lord's ministers; and as anciently in Persia and other Eastern countries the alarm trumpets were sounded from the tent of the sovereign, so were they blown from the tabernacle, the visible residence of Israel's King.

John Gill on Numbers 10:8

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; but in Solomon's time there were an hundred twenty priests, and as many trumpets, 2 Chronicles 5:12; hence Maimonides says (l), there were never fewer than two trumpets, nor more than an hundred twenty: and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations: for they were not only for present use, for the journeying of the camps in the wilderness, but for calling together the assembly in later times, as well as for other uses next mentioned; which would obtain in future…

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Dictionary and topics

Exodus — The great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of the land of Egypt with “a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm” (Ex 12:51; Deut. 26:8; Ps 114; 136), about…
Music, Instrumental — Among instruments of music used by the Hebrews a principal place is given to stringed instruments. These were, (1.) The kinnor, the “harp.” (2.) The nebel, “a skin bottle,” rendered “psaltery.” (3.)…
Priest — The Heb. kohen, Gr. hierus, Lat. sacerdos, always denote one who offers sacrifices. At first every man was his own priest, and presented his own sacrifices before God. Afterwards that office devolved…
Ordinance · A — A
Priests · Services of: Blowing the trumpets on various occasions — Services of: Blowing the trumpets on various occasions
Trumpet · Uses of, prescribed by Moses — Uses of, prescribed by Moses

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Numbers 10:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Numbers 10:1-10

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 10:8

John Gill on Numbers 10:8

Dictionary and topics

Numbers 10:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Numbers 10:1-10

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 10:8

John Gill on Numbers 10:8

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Numbers 10:1-10

Keil & Delitzsch on Numbers 10:8-10

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Numbers 10:8

Rashi on Numbers 10:8