A Voice Like A Trumpet

Trumpets are really old. There was found a trumpet in King Tut's grave. And while many trumpets were made from bronze or silver, there were other trumpets that were just made from a ram's horn, called a shofar. John's comment probably doesn't refer to the quality of the voice-- as if the voice sounded brassy-- but possibly referring to the volume of it.


In Exodus 19, when the people were called to the presence of God, it was a ram's horn that called them. Perhaps this is a reference to that even.