the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Izhibhalo Ezingcwele
INumeri 10:8
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Numbers 31:6, Joshua 6:4-16, 1 Chronicles 15:24, 1 Chronicles 16:6, 2 Chronicles 13:12-15
Reciprocal: Exodus 12:14 - by an ordinance Numbers 15:15 - an ordinance Deuteronomy 20:2 - General 2 Chronicles 29:26 - the priests Joel 2:1 - Blow
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 ages till the coming of Christ, and even under the Gospel dispensation the mystical use of them continues, the preaching of the everlasting Gospel.
l Hilchot Cele Hamikdash, c. 3. sect. 4.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The sons of Aaron - As the trumpets were emblematic of the voice of God, the priests only were to use them. At this time there were only two “sons of Aaron;” but in later times, when the number of priests was greater, more trumpets were used; we read of seven in the times of Joshua and David (see the marginal references.); and of a hundred and twenty in that of Solomon 2 Chronicles 5:12.
