Numbers 10:1-10 tells about two silver trumpets that would be used by the Israelites both on the journey to the Promised Land and after they arrived.
During the journey, different combinations of long and short blasts would summon the people or their leaders together and let the tribes know when to break camp. In the Promised Land, trumpets would be used for holy wars and for celebrations.
Num 10:9-10 imply that the blasts from these trumpets would, in a sense, be prayers, calling upon God to remember his people---i.e., to take action on their behalf.
These silver trumpets were one of two kinds of trumpets used by the Israelites. There were also the rams' horns, the shofarim, that were heard at Mt Sinai (Ex 19), at the beginning of a Jubilee year (Lev 25), and at Jericho (Joshua 6).
In a sermon at Church of the Messiah on July 30, 2022, Kyle Kettering looked at trumpets in the Bible. In addition to being calls for God to remember his people, trumpet blasts are calls for God's people to remember God and turn to him in repentance. We must heed these calls before the final trumpet blasts that signal the return of Jesus (Matt 24:31; 1 Cor 15:50-58; 1 Thes 4:16-18; Rev 11:15).
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