![]() How this was done appears from the example related in 2 Chronicles 29:26-28. (1) The trumpets were to be blown over the sacrifices. The particulars are noted in verse 10, and are of uncommon interest for the Christian reader. The blowing of the silver trumpets found place chiefly in the service of the sanctuary. That it was the priests who blew the trumpets on all such occasions reminds us that Israel was, in a special sense, "an holy nation " and may also carry forward our minds to the time when "holiness to the Lord" will be written on the life of all Christian nations in all their relations.ģ. And they were the bugles by which military signals were given (verses 4-6). Public assemblies were convened by the sounding of the trumpets, as they are convened among us by the ringing of bells (verses 2, 3, 7). It is not to be confounded with the Levitical service of song, instituted long after by David.Ģ. It belonged to the priest's office (verse 8). ![]() I have spoken first of the general design or spiritual intention of this ordinance of the silver trumpets. There are Christian people whose prayers are always rising into the ringing' tones of the silver trumpet. They are to call on him with a gladsome confidence that he is able and ready to help them. But it is not the will of God that his children's ordinary intercourse with him should be of that sort. There may be acceptable prayer in a sigh, in a cry of anguish, in the groaning of a prisoner. There was nothing of the trumpet-tone in the publican's prayer. And ought not a note of gladness, hope, exultation to pervade our prayers? When we pray we are to use a certain holy boldness we are to draw near we are to speak in full assurance of faith. In almost every instance in which the blowing of these trumpets is mentioned in Scripture, it is suggestive of gladness, hope, exultation. When we call on God we ought to stir ourselves up to take hold of him ( Isaiah 64:7.) Moreover, the silver trumpet emits a ringing, joyous sound. The spirit of adoption cries, Abba Father (see 2 Chronicles 13:14). But it does mean that we are to throw heart into our prayers and put forth our strength. This is not meant to suggest that there ought to be loud and vehement speaking in prayer. There is a clear determinate ring in the call of a silver trumpet. ![]() A trumpet-tone is the opposite of a timid whisper. ![]() For one thing, it admonishes us that prayer ought to be an effectual fervent exercise ( James 5:16). IT PRESENTS CERTAIN ASPECTS OF PRAYER WHICH CAN HARDLY BE TOO MUCH REMEMBERED. An exceedingly striking and suggestive figure it is. In other words, the blowing of the silver trumpets was a figure of PRAYER (cf. They were to be to the children of Israel for a memorial before their God (verse 10) the promise was that when the trumpets were blown, the people should be remembered before the Lord their God, and he would save them from their enemies (verse 9). The true intention of the silver trumpets is distinctly enough indicated in the law before us. The former is the shophar or cornet, which, as its name implies, was of horn, or at least horn-shaped whereas the latter, the chatsotser, was a long' straight tube of silver with a bell-shaped mouth. Although bearing the same name in the English Bible, these are quite different instruments, and are called by different Hebrew names. But the interpretation is a mistaken one, and arises from confounding the trumpet of jubilee ( Leviticus 25:9 Luke 4:16) with the silver trumpet. The blowing of the silver trumpets by Aaron and his sons has generally been taken to denote the preaching of the gospel. ![]()
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