when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people,
Parallel translations
- WEB if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
- KJV If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
- BSB and he sees the sword coming against that land and blows the ram’s horn to warn the people.
- NASB and he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the horn and warns the people,
- NLT When the watchman sees the enemy coming, he sounds the alarm to warn the people.
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Quick answer
A faithful watchman who sees the sword coming blows the trumpet to warn the people. His duty is to sound the alarm regardless of the response.
Overview
The watchman's responsibility is simply to warn when he sees danger. Blowing the trumpet pictures the prophet's faithful proclamation of God's word. The emphasis falls on faithful warning as the watchman's God-given charge, a model for all who are entrusted with declaring God's truth.
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Cross-references · 9
- Hos 8:1“Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.
- Neh 4:20Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”
- Isa 58:1“Cry aloud, don’t spare. Lift up your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
- Neh 4:18Among the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.
- Joel 2:1Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:
- Jer 4:5Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let us go into the fortified cities!’
- Jer 6:1“Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks out from the north, and a great destruction.
- Ezek 33:8–9When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.
- Jer 51:27“Set up a standard in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her! Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz! Appoint a marshal against her! Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm!
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