But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
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But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
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But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
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But when the assembly is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
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Passages linked to Numbers 10:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Joel 2:1 Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:
- Numbers 10:3-4 When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting. If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 10:7 But when the congregation is to be…
Num 10:7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
Ver. 7. But when the congregation.] Cenalis, bishop of Avranche, {a} was hard driven, when to prove the Church of Rome a true church, he makes no mention at all of ministers, or ordinances, but allegeth that the Catholics had bells to assemble them together, whereas the Lutherans met by the clap of harquebuses {b} and pistols. And so he goes on to triumph in a long antithesis. The bells, saith he, do sound, the harquebuses crack. The bells give a sweet and melodious tune, but the harquebuses a foul and terrible noise. Bells open heaven; the other hell. Bells chase away clouds and thunder; the other, gender clouds and counterfeit thunder, &c. Oh, the profound arguments of these doting doctors!
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But you shall not sound an alarm.] Or, A broken sound; but a continued equal sound, as fittest for their quiet assembling, to the service of God, and hearing of the law. The sound of God’s word must not be broken or quavering - pompalis, Tertullian calleth it - but downright and simple. Non oratorum filii sumus, sed piscatorum: nec verborum υπεροχη, sed Spiritus επιδειξει, {c} &c. {1Co 2:1; 1Co 2:4}
{a} Act. and Mon., fol. 838.
{b} The early type of portable gun, varying in size from a small cannon to a musket, which on account of its weight was, when used in the field, supported upon a tripod, trestle, or other ‘carriage’, and afterwards upon a forked ‘rest’.
{c} Nazianz., ad Libanium.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But when the congregation is to be gathered together,....…
But when the congregation is to be gathered together,.... At the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and not to move in separate camps or bodies one after another:
you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm; blow with an even and uninterrupted sound, and not with a broken and quavering one; by which the congregation and camps were distinguished from one another, the same certain sound being given to each constantly, whereby they knew which were called to motion: see Co1 14:8; according to Ben Gersom blowing was a voice drawn out, and joined or continued; an alarm, a voice not joined, but broken.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Sound. High mysteries must be reserved for the more…
Sound. High mysteries must be reserved for the more learned. (Theodoret, q. 15.) (Worthington)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 7. Ye shall blow — By this is meant…
7. Ye shall blow — By this is meant that the stream of sound should be articulated, or broken into sharp, short tones, instead of the long and equable blast which Dr. A. Clarke identifies with the Roman taratantara, or clarion sound. Possibly Paul may allude to this distinction in 1Co_14:8.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) But ye shall not sound an alarm.—A clear…
(7) But ye shall not sound an alarm.—A clear and intelligible distinction was to be made between the summons to the princes, or to the congregation, to assemble at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting and the signal for the moving of the camps. So the gospel trumpet must at no time give an uncertain sound (1Co_14:8), but must be used faithfully and diligently by the spiritual watchmen, whether it be to warn the ungodly, to arouse the careless, or to speak to the hearts of God’s people.
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