Verse-by-Verse Bible CommentaryPsalms 98:6
With trumpets and the sound of the horn Shout joyfully before the King, the LORD. Jump to: Clarke Commentary • Barne's Notes • Gill's Exposition • Geneva Study Bible • Trapp's Commentary • Whedon's Commentary • Haydock's Catholic Commentary • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes • Ellicott's Commentary • Treasury of Knowledge Other Authors
Adam Clarke CommentaryWith trumpets - חצצרות chatsotseroth . Some kind of tubular instruments, of the form and management of which we know nothing. And sound of cornet - שופר shophar, the word commonly used for what we call trumpet. Copyright Statement Bibliography Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole BibleWith trumpets - The word used here is uniformly rendered “trumpets” in the Scriptures. Numbers 10:2, Numbers 10:8-10; Numbers 31:6; et al. The trumpet was mainly employed for convening a public assembly for worship, or for assembling the hosts for battle. The original word - חצצרה chătsôtserâh - is supposed to have been designed to imitate “the broken pulse-like sound of the trumpet, like the Latin “taratantara.” So the German “trarara,” and the Arabic hadadera The word used here was given to the long, straight trumpet. And sound of cornet … - The word here translated “cornet” is also usually rendered “trumpet,” Exodus 19:16, Exodus 19:19; Exodus 20:18; Leviticus 25:9; Joshua 6:4-6, Joshua 6:8-9, Joshua 6:13, Joshua 6:16, Joshua 6:20; et saepe. It is rendered “cornet” in 1 Chronicles 15:28; 2 Chronicles 15:14; Hosea 5:8. In the Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate it is here rendered “horn” - the meaning of “cornet.” The name - שׁפר shôphār - is supposed to have been given to this instrument from its clear and shrill sound, like the English name “clarion.” It was either made of horn, or similar to a horn - an instrument curved like a horn. The instrument was in frequent use among the Hebrews. Copyright Statement Bibliography John Gill's Exposition of the Whole BibleWith trumpet and sound of cornet,.... The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Ethiopic versions, render it with ductile trumpets, such as were made of silver, as the two trumpets for the calling of the assembly, Numbers 10:2 to which the allusion seems to be here, called "asosra" by Josephus make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King; or rather "before the King, the Lord" Copyright Statement Bibliography Geneva Study BibleWith e trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.(e) By this repetition and earnest exhortation to give praise with instruments, and also of the dumb creatures, he signifies that the world is never able to praise God sufficiently for their deliverance. Copyright Statement Bibliography John Trapp Complete CommentaryPsalms 98:6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King. Ver. 6. Make a joyful noise] By the repeating and inculcating of this exhortation is intimated our dulness and backwardness to a business of this nature; the necessity of the duty, and excellency of the mercy that can never be sufficiently celebrated. Copyright Statement Bibliography Whedon's Commentary on the Bible6. Trumpets and… cornet—For “cornet” see note on Psalms 81:3. “Trumpets,” here, are the “silver trumpets” which Moses was commanded to make, to be used only by the priests for signals of war, the beginnings of months, festivals, and sacrifices. Numbers 10:1-10; Numbers 31:6. At first they were only two, but increased to twenty in the time of Solomon, and employed in the orchestra. 2 Chronicles 5:12 Copyright Statement Bibliography George Haydock's Catholic Bible CommentaryMoses and Aaron among his priests. By this it is evident, that Moses also was a priest, and indeed the chief priest, in as much as he consecrated Aaron, and offered sacrifice for him, Leviticus viii. So that his pre-eminence over Aaron makes nothing for lay church headship. (Challoner) (Worthington) --- Samuel is only mentioned as a Levite. See 1 Kings xxv. 1. (Calmet) Copyright Statement Bibliography E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notesbefore. See note on "presence" (Psalms 95:2). Copyright Statement Bibliography Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) Trumpets . . . cornet.—(See Numbers 10:2; Exodus 19:16; and Bible Educator, ii. 231, 232.) This is the only place in the psalm where the chatsotsereh, or “straight trumpet” is mentioned. Copyright Statement Bibliography Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeWith trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.
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