Dictionary entry

Trumpet

R. A. Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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