Numbers 10:9

Translations

Modern

When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and saved from your enemies.

Traditional

And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the Lord your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

Literal

And when you go into battle in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, you shall sound a short blast with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the face of YHWH your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

Latin

Si exieritis ad bellum de terra vestra contra hostes qui dimicant adversum vos, clangetis ululantibus tubis, et erit recordatio vestri coram Domino Deo vestro, ut eruamini de manibus inimicorum vestrorum.

Original

Hebrew

English

When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and saved from your enemies.

Notes

Numbers 10:9–10

The trumpets marked holy events that people might not easily recognize. Trumpets that called to battle would remind the Lord to save the Hebrews from their enemies (Hosea 5:8; Joel 2:1).

Numbers 10:1–10

Israel needed clear signals so the tribes could receive instructions. Two silver trumpets provided a simple and effective way to signal all the tribes to move.
These trumpets were not the ram’s horns (Hebrew shofar) often mentioned in the Old Testament (for example, Joshua 6:4–6). Israelite craftsmen made them from hammered silver brought out of Egypt.

Related verses

1 Samuel 10:18
…and said to the Israelites, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the hands of the Egyptians and of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’
Judges 2:18
Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
Psalm 106:4
Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
2 Chronicles 13:14
When Judah turned and discovered that the battle was both before and behind them, they cried out to the LORD. Then the priests blew the trumpets,
Psalm 106:42
Their enemies oppressed them and subdued them under their hand.
Judges 10:12
Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?
Joshua 6:5
And when there is a long blast of the ram’s horn and you hear its sound, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all your people will charge straight into the city.”
Numbers 31:6
And Moses sent the thousand from each tribe into battle, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who took with him the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.
Judges 10:8
…who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and they did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.
Jeremiah 4:21
How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the horn?
Isaiah 58:1
“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Glossary

Biblical Concept of Law Deuteronomy, Book of Numbers, Book of Trumpet

Topics

Armies: Rendezvous of Sounding a Trumpet Priest: Duties of Sound the Trumpet in Summoning Assemblies and in Battle Priests: Services of Blowing the Trumpets on Various Occasions The Armies of Israel: Attended by Priest with Trumpets Trumpet used for Sounding for a Memorial when the People Went Into Battle Trumpet: Uses of, Prescribed by Moses

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