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Numbers 10 Bible study: Rise up, LORD
The silver trumpets gathered Israel, sent it out, and in war sounded so that "you will be remembered before the LORD your God" (10:9). And when the camp left Sinai, the ark went ahead "to seek out a resting place for them" (10:33), with the verb Numbers soon uses for the spies (13:2), while Moses prayed nearly the words that open Psalm 68 (10:35).
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“When the ark went forward, Moses said, “Rise up, LORD, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!””
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“In Numbers 10, blowing just one trumpet gathered only the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel.”
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Two trumpets, and what each sound meant
The LORD tells Moses, "Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation and for the journeying of the camps" (10:2). Then he gives the sounds. Both blown: "all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting" (10:3). Just one: "the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you" (10:4). An alarm: "the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward" (10:5), and a second alarm, "the camps that lie on the south side" (10:6). To gather the assembly, "you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm" (10:7). And who blows them: "The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations" (10:8).
Where it leads to Jesus
A great sound of a trumpet
Numbers 10:3leads toMatthew 24:31
The two silver trumpets were made "for the calling of the congregation" (10:2): "When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting" (10:3). Jesus said of his coming, "He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other" (Matthew 24:31). Jesus doesn't mention Numbers 10, and the New Testament doesn't link his words to this chapter. What they share is their subject, a trumpet sounding to gather God's people together, not only the word "trumpet". These are Jesus' own words set beside this chapter, not a fulfillment of it.
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- "You will be remembered before the LORD"
- The day they left the mountain
- Numbers 2, on the move
- "Rise up, LORD" in the Psalms
- The alarm, sounded in battle
- Trumpets in the New Testament
- 13 questions as you read
- 11 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
חֲצֹצְרָהchatsotserahsay kha-tso-tse-RAH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "clarion as secular instr." and "as sacred instr." Strong's: "a trumpet (from its sundered or quavering note)". "Make two trumpets of silver" (10:2) is the first time the Hebrew Bible uses this word. It is not the shofar, the horn heard at Sinai, "the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet" (Exodus 19:16); Psalm 98:6 names the two side by side: "With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn". This word comes four times in this chapter (10:2, 10:8, 10:9, 10:10), and in Numbers only once more, when "the trumpets for the alarm" go to war in the hand of Phinehas the priest (Numbers 31:6).
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Numbers 10 Bible study questions
- 1The cloud led Israel, yet Moses still asked Hobab, "you can be our eyes" (10:31). Whose help do you find it hard to ask for, even when you trust God to lead?
- 2The same trumpets called the people to gather and sent them out on the journey (10:2-7). Which is harder for you right now: gathering with God's people, or moving on when it's time?
- 3"Rise up, LORD" when the ark set out, and "Return, LORD" when it rested (10:35-36). What would it change to pray one of those at the start or end of your days this week?
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