1 Thessalonians 4:16 (BSB)

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.

From 1 Thessalonians 4. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on 1 Thessalonians 4:16

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on 1 Thessalonians 4:16: 16 For the Lord himself. He employs the term κελεύσματος, (shout,) and afterwards adds, the voice of the archangel, by way of exposition, intimating what is to be the nature of that arousing shout — that the archangel will discharge the office of a herald to summon the living and the dead to the tribunal of Christ.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18: In these words the apostle comforts the Thessalonians who mourned for the death of their relations and friends that died in the Lord. His design is to dissuade them from excessive grief, or inordinate sorrow, on that account. All grief for the death of friends is far from being unlawful; we may weep at least for ourselves if we do not weep for them, weep...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 1 Thessalonians 4:16: For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven,.... Not by proxy, or by representatives; not by the ministry of angels, as on Mount Sinai; nor by the ministers of the word, as under the Gospel dispensation; nor by his spirit, and the discovery of his love and grace, in which sense he descends in a spiritual manner, and visits his people; but in person, in...
• Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on 1 Thessalonians 4:16: Verse 16. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven. . With a shout. The word here used (κελευσμα) does not elsewhere occur in the New Testament. It properly means a cry of excitement, or of urging on; an outcry, clamour, or shout, as of sailors at the oar, Luc. Catapl. 19; of soldiers rushing to battle, Thuc. iii. 14; of a multitude of people, Diod. Sic. iii.