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	Nave's—Trumpet

Trumpet

An instrument of music—1Ch 13:8

Called the trump—1Co 15:52

MADE OF

• Rams' horns
• —Jos 6:4
• Silver
• —Nu 10:2

Required to give an intelligible and understood sound—1Co 14:8

USED FOR

• Regulating the journeys of the children of Israel
• —Nu 10:2,5,6
• Calling assemblies
• —Nu 10:2,3,7
• Blowing over the sacrifices on the feast day
• —Nu 10:10; Ps 81:3
• Blowing at all religious processions and ceremonies
• —1Ch 13:8; 15:24,28; 2Ch 5:13; 15:14
• Assembling the people to war
• —Jud 3:27
• Sounding for a memorial when the people went into battle
• —Nu 10:9; 31:6,7
• Proclaiming kings
• —2Ki 9:13; 11:14
• Giving alarm in cases of danger
• —Eze 33:2-6

Moses commanded to make two, for the tabernacle—Nu 10:2

Solomon made a great many, for the service of the temple—2Ch 5:12

The priests to blow the sacred—Nu 10:8; 2Ch 5:12; 7:6

The feast of trumpets celebrated by blowing of—Le 23:24; Nu 29:1

The jubilee introduced by blowing of—Le 25:9

MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH

• Falling of the walls of Jericho
• —Jos 6:20
• Heard at Mount Sinai at giving of the law
• —Ex 19:16; 20:18
• Confusion produced in the camp of the Midianites by sound
• of—Jud 7:16,22

The war-horse acquainted with the sound of—Job 39:24,25

SOUNDING OF, ILLUSTRATIVE OF

• God's power to raise the dead
• —1Co 15:52; 1Th 4:16
• The proclamation of the gospel
• —Ps 89:15
• The bold and faithful preaching of ministers
• —Isa 58:1; Ho 8:1; Joe 2:1
• The latter day judgments
• —Re 8:2,13