God In Number 10: The Personal Faith of the Prime Ministers, from Balfour to Blair

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NET Numbers 10:10 "Also in the time when you rejoice, such as on your appointed festivals or at the beginnings of your months, you must blow with your trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may become a memorial for you before your God: I am the LORD your God." The trumpets were to get the attention of the people ( you shall use them for calling the congregation, Numbers 10:2).

But when you blow an alarm - The word for an alarm is תְּרוּעָה (téru’ah). The root verb of this word means “to give a blast on the trumpet.” It may also on occasion mean “give a shout” in battle (Josh 6:10). In this passage it must refer to the sound of the trumpet. (NET) a. Come with us, and we will treat you well: Moses was a wise enough leader to know his limitations, and to know that he needed help. Moses knew God’s help often comes through men like his brother-in-law Hobab.NLT Numbers 10:10 Blow the trumpets in times of gladness, too, sounding them at your annual festivals and at the beginning of each month. And blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings. The trumpets will remind the LORD your God of his covenant with you. I am the LORD your God." a. Make two silver trumpets: The two silver trumpets were used to direct the movement of the camps for marching and for battle, and to gather the nation together for an assembly. INVITATION. “When ye shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves at the door” (v. 3). Thus the trumpet call invited to the “door of the tabernacle.” So the Gospel invitation is to all, and that they all might come to Him who is the Door of the sheep and the Way to the Father. “Come unto Me, and I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28). “Unto you, O men, I call.”

The sound had a special significance to the people of God ( they shall be a memorial for you before your God: I am the LORD your God). The people were to respond to the sound of the trumpets ( When they blow both of them, all the congregation shall gather before you). NUM. 10:2. Trumpets of silver … for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. C. H. MacINTOSH.ii. “I suspect that considerable time would have been necessary for Moses (and/or his artisans) to make these trumpets of hammered silver…. God may have instructed Moses to have these trumpets fashioned months before the people actually set out on their triumphant march.” (Allen) These PMs evoke the perplexities entailed by religious belief in an age of increasing scepticism. But it is perhaps helpful for a politician to have an above-average capacity for belief, and many of them did.

I am the LORD your God - 40x in 39v - Exod. 6:7; Exod. 16:12; Exod. 20:2; Lev. 11:44; Lev. 18:2; Lev. 18:4; Lev. 18:30; Lev. 19:3; Lev. 19:4; Lev. 19:10; Lev. 19:25; Lev. 19:31; Lev. 19:34; Lev. 19:36; Lev. 20:7; Lev. 20:24; Lev. 23:22; Lev. 23:43; Lev. 24:22; Lev. 25:17; Lev. 25:38; Lev. 25:55; Lev. 26:1; Lev. 26:13; Num. 10:10; Num. 15:41; Deut. 5:6; Deut. 29:6; Jdg. 6:10; Isa. 41:13; Isa. 43:3; Isa. 48:17; Isa. 51:15; Ezek. 20:5; Ezek. 20:7; Ezek. 20:19; Ezek. 20:20; Joel 2:27; Joel 3:17 The sound proclaimed the work of atoning sacrifice ( you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings). CALLED (chap. 8:6). The first preachers of the Gospel were all called and chosen by the Master. No man can take this honour to himself (Rom. 10:15). LXE Numbers 10:10 And in the days of your gladness, and in your feasts, and in your new moons, ye shall sound with the trumpets at your whole-burnt-offerings, and at the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and there shall be a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God.

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