seventh moneth] That is, about the end of September. a Sabbath] Or an holy day, or solemne feast unto the Lord. Trumpets] This was on the first day of the moneth Tizri, that is, of September; the first moneth for civill account: See Annot. on Chap. 25. vers. 3. And yet this seventh moneth, as if it had beene the Sabbath of moneths, as the weekely Sabbath was the seventh of dayes, was eminent for the multitude of solemnities above any other; for in that moneth was the feast of Trumpets, of Tabernacles, and the solemne Atonement or Expiation observed. This feast of Trumpets was kept, at least the first day of it (as it is received by tradition among the Jewes) in remembrance of Isaacs deliverance from slaughter, when his father was ready to offer him up in sacrifice, Genesis 22:11-12. and it is called a memoriall of blowing of Trumpets, because it was in the beginning of that moneth, which had many feasts in it, to which the people were to be called together by blowing of Trumpets; and for that the Trumpets were to sound at the oblation of the sacrifice on dayes of rejoycing, and other solemne dayes, especially in the New moone, Numbers 10:10. Psalms 81:3. and this joyfull noise was made, with a speciall memoriall of the yeere of Jubilee, which was begun in this moneth; and when it begun the solemnitie of it is supposed to be such, that the Trumpets were sounded not at Jerusalem onely where the sacrifices were offered, but throughout all the Cities of Israel. Some thinke it was called the feast of Trumpets, with reference to the Ram by which Isaac was ransomed from death; because some Trumpets were made of rams horns, Joshua 6:20. Others say this feast beares the memoriall of the miraculous victorie over Jericho, at the Israelites first entrance into the Land of Canaan, when the wals of it fell downe at the sound of rams hornes, Josh. in the place fore mentioned.