Numbers 10:2

two: here only two. Later, 120 (2 Chronicles 5:12 ).

trumpets. These were of two principal kinds: those called chazozerah, made of silver, and straight; the other, shophar, a horn. These must be distinguished. The other words are yobel , a jubilee horn (Exodus 19:16 ); and tako'a, the blast of a trumpet (Ezekiel 7:14 ).

of a whole piece = of beaten work.

use them: for four purposes: (1) assembly; (2) journeying; (3) for war; (4) for the feasts.

assembly = whole congregation: i e. in its civil character.