Numbers 10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 10

In this chapter we have, I. Orders given about the making and using of silver trumpets, which seems to have been the last of all the commandments God gave upon mount Sinai, and one of the least, yet not without its significancy, Num. 10:1-10. II. The history of the removal of Israel's camp from mount Sinai, and their orderly march into the wilderness of Paran, Num. 10:11-28. III. Moses's treaty with Hobab, his brother-in-law, Num. 10:29-32. IV. Moses's prayer at the removing and resting of the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 10:1-10

We have here directions concerning the public notices that were to be given to the people upon several occasions by sound of trumpet. In a thing of this nature, one would think, Moses needed not to have been taught of God: his own reason might teach him the conveniency of trumpets; but the constitution of Israel was to be in every thing divine, and therefore even in this matter, small as it seems. Moses is here directed, 1. About the making of them. They must be made of silver; not cast but of... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 10:11-28

Here is, I. A general account of the removal of the camp of Israel from mount Sinai, before which mountain it had lain now about a year, in which time and place a great deal of memorable business was done. Of this removal, it should seem, God gave them notice some time before (Deut. 1:6; 7): You have dwelt long enough in this mountain, turn you and take your journey towards the land of promise. The apostle tells us that mount Sinai genders to bondage (Gal. 4:24), and signifies the law there... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 10:29-36

Here is, I. An account of what passed between Moses and Hobab, now upon this advance which the camp of Israel made towards Canaan. Some think that Hobab was the same with Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, and that the story, Exod. 18:1-27, should come in here; it seems more probable that Hobab was the son of Jethro, alias Reuel, or Raguel (Exod. 2:18), and that when the father, being aged, went to his own land (Exod. 18:27), he left his son Hobab with Moses, as Barzillai left Chimham with David;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 10

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 10 This chapter gives an account of the directions given for making two silver trumpets, and of the use of them, the ends and purposes for which they were to be made, Numbers 10:1 ; and of the time of taking up of the cloud from the tabernacle, and of the removal of the camp of Israel from the wilderness of Sinai, and of the order of their march, Numbers 10:11 ; when Moses most earnestly passed Hobab, his brother in law, to continue with him, Numbers 10:29 ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 10:1

And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... When the following directions concerning the trumpets were given is not certain; it may he at the time when the order of the camps of Israel was fixed, and is here recorded before the journeying of them, which was one use they were to be put unto, Numbers 10:2 , saying ; as follows. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 10:2

Make thee two trumpets of silver ,.... A metal very valuable and precious, durable, and fit for sound; only two are ordered, Aaron having but two sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, who were to blow with them, Numbers 10:8 ; for though Moses's order is, "make thee", or for thee, yet not for his own use, but for the priests to use when he should order them: the Targum of Jonathan adds, of what is thine own, as if they were to be made at his own expense; but others say, and which is more probable,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 10:3

And when they shall blow with them ,.... With both the trumpets, in an even and continued sound, that is, the sons of Aaron: all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation ; to hear what was to be said unto them: blowing both the trumpets together was a token that the whole congregation was called to meet together at the tabernacle, the door of which was the usual place of assembling, especially on religious counts, for there also the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 10:4

And if they blow but with one trumpet ,.... With only one of them, or but once, with one sounding, and that an even one as before: then the princes, which are the heads of the thousands of Israel , shall gather themselves unto thee : and they only or alone, as Aben Ezra: by this token, or by this difference of blowing both trumpets, or only one, it was, easily known when the whole congregation or when the princes only were to meet Moses at the same place, the door of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 10:5

When ye blow an alarm ,.... Making a broken, uneven, and quavering sound, which is called a "tara-tan-tara": then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward ; the camps of Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, which lay to the east of the tabernacle, at the front of it; see Numbers 1:3 ; this was to be the token for their march, which was first of all; Numbers 10:14 . read more

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