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A Distinct Sound for Marching
Commentators explain that the "alarm" was a distinct trumpet blast, different from the one used to assemble the people. While scholars debate if it was a continuous peal or a broken, quavering sound, they agree it was a specific, God-ordained signal for a specific action: beginning the march.
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Albert Barnes
On Numbers 10:5–6
18th Century
Theologian
Blow an alarm - that is, a long continuous peal. Compare Numbers 10:7, ye shall blow, but not sound an alarm: that is, blow in shor…
Charles Ellicott
On Numbers 10:5
19th Century
Bishop
When you blow an alarm. — The word teruah, alarm, is supposed to denote a loud and continuous blast, by which th…
John Gill
On Numbers 10:5
17th Century
Pastor
When you blow an alarm
Making a broken, uneven, and quavering sound, which is called a "tara-tan-tara":
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Matthew Henry
On Numbers 10:1–10
17th Century
Minister
Here, directions are given concerning the public notices to be given to the people by sound of trumpet. Their laws were in every case to be Divine;…