Bible Strands
Numbers 10:9
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Israel at Sinai, within the standing instructions for the silver trumpets (vv. 8–10). The speaker is the LORD; the audience is the whole congregation, with the sons of Aaron as the ones who will sound.
The words — The same root appears twice: צָר (tsar, "foe") and צֹרֵר (tso'rer, "who opposes"), pairing a noun with its active verb to present the enemy as something that presses in, not a static threat.
The thread — The "remembered" language echoes Genesis 8:1, where God "remembered" Noah and sent the wind, and the deliverance-from-enemies pattern recurs in Judges 2:18, where the LORD is "with" the judge and saves Israel from their enemies.
Why it lands — The verse makes Israel's survival contingent on a ritual act (sounding) and on God's remembering, not on their own strength; the reader is asked to hold that tension between human obedience and divine initiative without resolving it.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the Lord your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
Cross-references
- 1 Samuel 10:18 and said to the Israelites, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the hands of the Egyptians and of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’
- Judges 2:18 Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
- Genesis 8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
- Psalms 106:4 Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
- Numbers 31:6 And Moses sent the thousand from each tribe into battle, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who took with him the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.
- Joshua 6:5 And when there is a long blast of the ram’s horn and you hear its sound, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all your people will charge straight into the city.”
- Judges 10:8 who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and they did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.
- Judges 10:12 Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?
- 2 Chronicles 13:14 When Judah turned and discovered that the battle was both before and behind them, they cried out to the LORD. Then the priests blew the trumpets,
- Psalms 106:42 Their enemies oppressed them and subdued them under their hand.