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Trumpet
An instrument of music - 1Ch 13:8
Called the trump - 1Co 15:52
MADE OF
- Rams' horns
- Jos 6:4- Silver
- Nu 10:2Required to give an intelligible and understood sound - 1Co 14:8
USED FOR
- Regulating the journeys of the children of Israel
- Nu 10:2,5,6- Calling assemblies
- Nu 10:2,3,7- Blowing over the sacrifices on the feast day
- Nu 10:10; Ps 81:3- Blowing at all religious processions and ceremonies
- 1Ch 13:8; 15:24,28; 2Ch 5:13; 15:14- Assembling the people to war
- Jud 3:27- Sounding for a memorial when the people went into battle
- Nu 10:9; 31:6,7- Proclaiming kings
- 2Ki 9:13; 11:14- Giving alarm in cases of danger
- Eze 33:2-6Moses commanded to make two, for the tabernacle - Nu 10:2
Solomon made a great many, for the service of the temple - 2Ch 5:12
The priests to blow the sacred - Nu 10:8; 2Ch 5:12; 7:6
The feast of trumpets celebrated by blowing of - Le 23:24; Nu 29:1
The jubilee introduced by blowing of - Le 25:9
MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH
- Falling of the walls of Jericho
- Jos 6:20- Heard at Mount Sinai at giving of the law
- Ex 19:16; 20:18- Confusion produced in the camp of the Midianites by sound
of - Jud 7:16,22The war-horse acquainted with the sound of - Job 39:24,25
SOUNDING OF, ILLUSTRATIVE OF
- God's power to raise the dead
- 1Co 15:52; 1Th 4:16- The proclamation of the gospel
- Ps 89:15- The bold and faithful preaching of ministers
- Isa 58:1; Ho 8:1; Joe 2:1- The latter day judgments
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