Éxodo 32:17

17 Y oyendo Josué el clamor del pueblo que gritaba, dijo a Moisés: Alarido de pelea hay en el campamento

Éxodo 32:17 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 32:17

And when Joshua heard the noise of the people, as they
shouted
Dancing about the calf: when Moses went up into the mount, Joshua went with him, and tarried in a lower part of the mount all the forty days until he returned, see ( Exodus 24:13 ) though not so low as the bottom of the mount where the people were, nor so near it as to know what they did there, for of their affairs he seems to be entirely ignorant; nor so high as where Moses was, or, however, not in the cloud where he conversed with God, for of what passed between them he had no knowledge, until declared by Moses:

he said unto Moses, [there is a] noise of war in the camp;
such a noise as soldiers make in an onset for battle; he supposed that some enemy was come upon and had attacked the people, and that this noise was the noise of the enemy, or of the Israelites, or both, just beginning the battle; or on the finishing of it on the account of victory on one side or the other; and as he was the general of the army, it must give him a concern that he should be absent at such a time.

Éxodo 32:17 In-Context

15 Y volvió Moisés, y descendió del monte trayendo en su mano las dos tablas del testimonio, las tablas escritas por ambos lados; de un lado y del otro estaban escritas

16 Y las tablas eran obra de Dios, y la escritura era escritura de Dios grabada sobre las tablas

17 Y oyendo Josué el clamor del pueblo que gritaba, dijo a Moisés: Alarido de pelea hay en el campamento

18 Y él respondió: No es alarido de respuesta de fuertes, ni alarido de respuesta de flacos; alarido de cantar oigo yo

19 Y aconteció, que cuando llegó él al campamento, y vio el becerro y las danzas, el furor se le encendió a Moisés, y arrojó las tablas de sus manos, y las quebró al pie del monte