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Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, At the full moon, on our feast day.
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Scholars debate whether this verse refers to the Passover or the Feast of Tabernacles due to ambiguity in the Hebrew terms for “new moon” and “full moon.” However, all agree the point is that God ordained specific, joyous festivals, marked by trumpet blasts, for Israel to remember His mighty acts of deliverance.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Blow up the trumpet – The word translated "blow" means to make a clangor or noise as on a trumpet. The trumpet was, like the timbrel, the ha…
19th Century
Anglican
Trumpet.—Hebrew, shôphar. (Psalms 47:5). In connection with this festival psalm, the mention of the shôph…
Baptist
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon Either in every new moon, or first day of the month, which was religiously obser…
All the worship we can render to the Lord is beneath his excellences and our obligations to him, especially in our redemption from sin and wrath. W…
