Numbers 10:9 (BSB)

When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God and saved from your enemies.

From Numbers 10. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 10:9

  • 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 10:9: And when ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you,.... That enters in to invade it, to besiege cities, and distress the inhabitants of it: then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets: a "tara-tan-tara" with both of them, to call the several tribes together to join against the enemy; or to call them to fasting and humiliation, to...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 10:9: If ye go to war--In the land of Canaan, either when attacked by foreign invaders or when they went to take possession according to the divine promise, "ye [that is, the priests] shall blow an alarm." This advice was accordingly acted upon (Num 31:6; Ch2 13:12); and in the circumstances it was an act of devout confidence in God.
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 10:9: Num 10:9 “If ye go to war in your land against the enemy who oppresses you, and ye blow the trumpets, ye shall bring yourselves to remembrance before Jehovah, and shall be saved (by Him) from your enemies.” מלחמה בּוא, to come into war, or go to war, is to be distinguished from למּלחמה בּוא, to make ready for war, go out to battle (Num 31:21; Num 32:6).