TRUMPET
They were made with ram horns and, perhaps, those of other animals. They were used on occasions of joy and in wars.
There were two silver trumpets for the use of the priests, giving instructions to issue different calls to summon the princes, the entire congregation, or to give the alarm for battle (Num. 10:1-10; cf. 1 Cor. 14:8).
Later, during the dedication of the Temple, Solomon had one hundred and twenty priests blowing trumpets (2 Chron. 5:12).
When the Law was promulgated on Sinai, the loud sound of a trumpet was heard coming from the mountain; so intense that all the people were afraid (Ex. 19:16, 19; Heb. 12:19).
When the Lord comes in search of his saints, he will do so with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God (1 Thes. 4:16). At the resurrection of the saints “the last trumpet” will sound (1 Cor. 15:52).
In the Roman army, when they had to march, the trumpets sounded three times: when they heard the first, they dismantled their tents, when they heard the second, they formed up to prepare to march, when the third sounded, they began to leave.
In the judgments that will fall upon the earth (see TRIBULATION [GREAT]), the seven seals introduce the series of seven trumpets (Rev. 8:2-9:14).