Exodus Chapter 32 verse 17 Holy Bible

ASV Exodus 32:17

And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
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BBE Exodus 32:17

Now when the noise and the voices of the people came to the ears of Joshua, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the tents.
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DARBY Exodus 32:17

And Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, and said to Moses, There is a shout of war in the camp.
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KJV Exodus 32:17

And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
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WBT Exodus 32:17

And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
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WEB Exodus 32:17

When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."
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YLT Exodus 32:17

And Joshua heareth the voice of the people in their shouting, and saith unto Moses, `A noise of battle in the camp!'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - When Joshua heard. This abrupt introduction of Joshua, who has not been mentioned for seven entire chapters, is curious. Probably he had considered himself bound, as Moses' minister (Exodus 24:13), to await his return, and had remained in the middle portion of the mount, where he may have fed upon manna, until Moses came down from the top. The noise of the people. It is noted by travellers, that in all the latter part of the descent from Sinai, the plain at its base is shut out from sight; and that sounds would be heard from it a long time before the plain itself would open on the view (Stanley, Sinai and Palestine, p. 44). Sounds, however, which come circuitously, are always indistinct; and it is not surprising that Joshua, knowing nothing of the proceedings in the camp, should have fancied he heard a sound of war.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) When Joshua heard.--Joshua's presence with Moses in the mount has not been indicated since Exodus 24:13. But it would seem that when Moses was summoned up into the cloud (Exodus 24:16) his faithful "minister" remained where he was, waiting for his master. He may have found shelter in some "cleft of the rock;" and the manna may have fallen about him, and sufficed for his sustenance during the forty days and nights of his master's absence.The noise of the people as they shouted.--"Shouting" was a feature of idolatrous rites (1Kings 18:28; Acts 19:34; Herod. ii. 60, &c.), and was in part a cause, in part a result, of the physical excitement which prevailed during such orgies. Joshua, unsuspicious of the real nature of the shouting, supposed, naturally enough, that the camp was attacked by an enemy, and that the noise was "a noise of war." But Moses, forewarned of the actual state of affairs (Exodus 32:7-8), had probably a shrewd suspicion of the real nature of the sounds. He contented himself, however, with negativing his minister's conjecture. . . .