Connected with the cloud that marked the presence of God among the people of Israel, of which we read in the latter part of the ninth chapter, we are told in the early part of the tenth chapter of two silver trumpets, which were to be used to call the people to meet at the door of the tabernacle; and for their journeyings; and for war.
Above the camp hung the cloud;— God was among His People; in their ears the trumpet sounded, so they learned the will of God and His care for them. Only the priests were to blow the trumpets (verse 8); they were a type of the believer who is in communion with God. By keeping near to God in our lives, we (Christians) may learn God’s mind, and tell it to others, too.
Verse 11 brings us to the moving of the camp from the foot of Mount Sinai. The cloud was taken up from, off the tabernacle,—then, and not till then, the people went on their journey. They went when God told them; where God directed them, and as God ordered them; for the order of going is exactly as given in chapter 2.
Moses, in verse 29, asks his brother-in-law, Hobab, to go with the camp, and in verses 31 and 32, presses him to go, because he would be a help to them. We are not told whether he did go with them or not, but it is good to notice, in the next verse, that God went with them,—went before them; indeed,-to search out a. resting place for them. It is better, a thousand times, to trust God, than any man.