Numbers 10

Numbers 10:8

Priests] The blowing of Trumpets is to be used by the Priests alone, Num. X. 8. 2 Chron. XXIX. 26. And that, in Convocating Assemblies; in journeying through the wildernesse; in going forth to warre, Num. X. 2,—9. and Ch. XXXI. 6. 2 Chron.

XIII. 12, 14. in the first day, and tenth day, of the seventh moneth, Num. XXIX. 1. Levit. XXV. 9. in the New Moones, Num. X. 10. Psal.

LXXXI. 3. In all their solemne Feasts; over their Burnt-Offerings, and Peace-Offerings, Num. X. 10. And upon Extraordinary Occasions, of Fasts, and Humiliations. Joel II. 1, 15, Or of Joy and Gladnesse, Num. X. 10. as when David brought in the Arke to the place which he had prepared for it, 1 Chron.

XV. 24, 28. And appointed Priests to minister before it, 1 Chron. XVI. 6, 42. And when Solomon brought the Arke into the Oracle, he mightily had multiplied the number of Trumpets, and had 120 Priests sounding them at that Solemnity, 2 Chron. V. 12, 13. And at the Dedication of the Temple, the Priests sounded Trumpets, 2 Chron.

V. 12. and VII. 6. As also at the laying of the foundation of the second Temple by Zerubbabel, Ezra III. 10. And the Dedication of the Walls of Jerusalem by Nehemiah, chapt. XII. 35. And in Hezekih’s joyful Reformation, 2 Chron. XXIX. 26, 27, 28.

Besides, there were civil Trumpets for civil use, sounded by others then Priests; As in Warre, Judg. VII. 2 Sam. II. 28. At the Coronations of Kings, as of Solomon; Jehu; and Joash. And upon other occasions.

The Levites used other Instruments of Musick, and not Trumpets, 1 Chron. XV. 19, 20, 21. and Ch. XVI. 5. 2 Cron. V. 12. and Ch. VII. 6. and Ch. XXIX. 25, 26, 27, 28. And used them, and song, at the daily Sacrifices, and all Festival Sacrifices, 1 Chron. XXIII. 30, 31. And haply in the night, 1 Chron. IX. 33. Psal. CXXXIV. 1.

Numbers 10:11

On the] The Israelites journeyed from Mount Sinai, in the second year, second moneth, twentieth day, (having stayed there in that their twelfth Station, a year within thirteen dayes, Exod. XIX. I.) See v. 12. Deut. I. 6, 7.

Numbers 10:29-32

Hobab] Jethro, or Hobab, a Kenite, the sonne of Revel or Raguel, a Midianite, and father-in-Law of Moses, comes to Moses to Horeb, and brings to him his wife, and two sonnes. And Moses upon his counsel, appointing very many Rulers, and Judges over the people, Jethro returnes into his own Land, Exod. XVIII. Deut. I. 9,—18. He (rather then his supposed sonne Hobab, the supposed brother-in-law of Moses) being come again, as it seemeth, thither towards the end of that year, and intreated there by Moses to stay and go along with them, refuseth to do so; Yet being again prayed and pressed by Moses thereunto, in this Text he either yeeldeth, (no reply being mentioned); or not long after, both he, and his house, and kindred, return to Moses; (It may be, warned by Moses to come then; as Saul in his time warned them to depart from the Amalakites, 1 Sam.

XV. 6) and so were saved from that destruction of the Midianites, Num. XXXI. which return is plainly gathered out of Num. XXIV. 21. Judg. I. 16. and IV. 11. and 1 Sam. XV. 6. 1 Chron.

II. 55. Jer. XXXV. 6. compared with 2 King. X. 15, 23.