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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Gill's Exposition
And he said,.... Not Joshua, as Saadiah Gaon thinks, but Moses, in answer to what Joshua had said:
it is not the voice of them that shout for mastery; that have got the better of it, and have…
The faithfulness of Moses in the office that had been entrusted to him was now to be put to the test. It was to be made manifest whether he loved his own glory better than he loved the brethren who…
Adam Clarke
Joshua - said - There is a noise of war in the camp - How natural was this thought to the mind of a military man! Hearing a confused noise he supposed that the Israelitish camp had been attacked by…
Here is, I. The favour of God to Moses, in trusting him with the two tables of the testimony, which, though of common stone, were far more valuable than all the precious stones that adorned the…
Cambridge Bible
Joshua whom Moses had left on the lower part of the mountain (Exo 24:13), and whom he must be supposed to have now rejoined.
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