Numbers 10:1 (BSB)

Then the LORD said to Moses,

From Numbers 10. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 10:1

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 10:1-10: We have here directions concerning the public notices that were to be given to the people upon several occasions by sound of trumpet. In a thing of this nature, one would think, Moses needed not to have been taught of God: his own reason might teach him the conveniency of trumpets; but the constitution of Israel was to be in every thing divine, and therefore...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 10:1: And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... When the following directions concerning the trumpets were given is not certain; it may he at the time when the order of the camps of Israel was fixed, and is here recorded before the journeying of them, which was one use they were to be put unto, Num 10:2, saying; as follows.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 10:1: At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. (k) Under the charge and government of Moses.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 10:1-4: Num 10:1-4 The Silver Signal-Trumpets. - Although God Himself appointed the time for removal and encampment by the movement of the cloud of His presence, signals were also requisite for ordering and conducting the march of so numerous a body, by means of which Moses, as commander-in-chief, might make known his commands to the different divisions of the camp.