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Exodus 32:17 Context: 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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and Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets from his hands and shattered them at the foot of the mountain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/32-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>He took the calf which they had made and burned <i>it</i> with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it over the surface of the water and made the sons of Israel drink <i>it.</i> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/32-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought <i>such</i> great sin upon them?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/32-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Aaron said, “Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you know the people yourself, that they are prone to evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/32-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>“For they said to me, ‘Make a god for us who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/32-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>“I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them tear it off.’ So they gave <i>it</i> to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.” <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/32-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Now when Moses saw that the people were out of control—for Aaron had let them get out of control to be a derision among their enemies— <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/32-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is for the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, <i>come</i> to me!” And all the sons of Levi gathered together to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/32-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>He said to them, “Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the God of Israel, ‘Every man <i>of you</i> put his sword upon his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp, and kill every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his neighbor.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/32-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>So the sons of Levi did as Moses instructed, and about three thousand men of the people fell that day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/32-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>Then Moses said, “Dedicate yourselves today to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>—for every man has been against his son and against his brother—in order that He may bestow a blessing upon you today.” <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/32-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>On the next day Moses said to the people, “You yourselves have committed a great sin; and now I am going up to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/32-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Then Moses returned to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, and said, “Alas, this people has committed a great sin, and they have made a god of gold for themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/32-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>“But now, if You will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out from Your book which You have written!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/32-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/32-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>“But go now, lead the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/32-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>Then the L<font size="1">ORD</font> smote the people, because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/exodus/32.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/exodus/32.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Josue hearing the noise of the people shouting, said to Moses: The noise of battle is heard in the camp. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/exodus/32.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, and said to Moses, There is a shout of war in the camp.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/exodus/32.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/exodus/32.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/exodus/32.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/exodus/32.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Joshua heareth the voice of the people in their shouting, and saith unto Moses, 'A noise of battle in the camp!'<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_golden_calf.htm">The Golden Calf</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 2. And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. 3. And all the people brake off the golden <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_golden_calf.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_swift_decay_of_love.htm">The Swift Decay of Love</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. 16. And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. 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. 18. And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_swift_decay_of_love.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_6/chapter_iiithe_hebrews_and_the.htm">The Hebrews and the Philistines --Damascus</a><br></span><span class="snippet">THE ISRAELITES IN THE LAND OF CANAAN: THE JUDGES--THE PHILISTINES AND THE HEBREW KINGDOM--SAUL, DAVID, SOLOMON, THE DEFECTION OF THE TEN TRIBES--THE XXIst EGYPTIAN DYNASTY--SHESHONQ OR SHISHAK DAMASCUS. The Hebrews in the desert: their families, clans, and tribes--The Amorites and the Hebrews on the left bank of the Jordan--The conquest of Canaan and the native reaction against the Hebrews--The judges, Ehud, Deborah, Jerubbaal or Gideon and the Manassite supremacy; Abimelech, Jephihdh. The Philistines, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_6/chapter_iiithe_hebrews_and_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">G. Maspero—</span><span class="citation2">History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 6</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_a/threefold_repentance.htm">Threefold Repentance</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2. Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3. So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. 4. And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall he overthrown. 5. So the people of Ninoveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_a/threefold_repentance.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the_two_covenants/chapter_xv_the_covenant_of.htm">The Covenant of an Everlasting Priesthood</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"That My covenant might be with Levi. My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared Me, and was afraid before My name. The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips; he walked with Me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity."--MAL. ii. 4-6. ISRAEL was meant by God to be a nation of priests. In the first making of the Covenant this was distinctly stipulated. "If ye will obey My voice, and keep My covenant, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the_two_covenants/chapter_xv_the_covenant_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Murray—</span><span class="citation2">The Two Covenants</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_11_carmel.htm">Carmel</a><br></span><span class="snippet">[This chapter is based on 1 Kings 18:19-40.] Standing before Ahab, Elijah demanded that all Israel be assembled to meet him and the prophets of Baal and Ashtoreth on Mount Carmel. "Send," he commanded, "and gather to me all Israel unto Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table." The command was issued by one who seemed to stand in the very presence of Jehovah; and Ahab obeyed at once, as if the prophet <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_11_carmel.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_xix_how_those_who.htm">How those who Use Food Intemperately and those who Use it Sparingly are to be Admonished. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Admonition 20.) Differently to be admonished are the gluttonous and the abstinent. For superfluity of speech, levity of conduct, and lechery accompany the former; but the latter often the sin of impatience, and often that of pride. For were it not the case that immoderate loquacity carries away the gluttonous, that rich man who is said to have fared sumptuously every day would not burn more sorely than elsewhere in his tongue, saying, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/chapter_xix_how_those_who.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Leo the Great—</span><span class="citation2">Writings of Leo the Great</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bernard/some_letters_of_saint_bernard_abbot_of_clairvaux/letter_xix_a_d_1127_to.htm">Letter xix (A. D. 1127) to Suger, Abbot of S. Denis</a><br></span><span class="snippet">To Suger, Abbot of S. Denis He praises Suger, who had unexpectedly renounced the pride and luxury of the world to give himself to the modest habits of the religious life. He blames severely the clerk who devotes himself rather to the service of princes than that of God. 1. A piece of good news has reached our district; it cannot fail to do great good to whomsoever it shall have come. For who that fear God, hearing what great things He has done for your soul, do not rejoice and wonder at the great <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bernard/some_letters_of_saint_bernard_abbot_of_clairvaux/letter_xix_a_d_1127_to.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Bernard of Clairvaux—</span><span class="citation2">Some Letters of Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/the_vineyard_of_the_lord.htm">The vineyard of the Lord </a><br></span><span class="snippet">It was for the purpose of bringing the best gifts of Heaven to all the peoples of earth that God called Abraham out from his idolatrous kindred and bade him dwell in the land of Canaan. "I will make of thee a great nation," He said, "and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing." Genesis 12:2. It was a high honor to which Abraham was called--that of being the father of the people who for centuries were to be the guardians and preservers of the truth of God to the world, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/the_vineyard_of_the_lord.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_xv_seasons_of_covenanting.htm">Seasons of Covenanting. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The duty is never unsuitable. Men have frequently, improperly esteemed the exercise as one that should be had recourse to, only on some great emergency. But as it is sinful to defer religious exercises till affliction, presenting the prospect of death, constrain to attempt them, so it is wrong to imagine, that the pressure of calamity principally should constrain to make solemn vows. The exercise of personal Covenanting should be practised habitually. The patriot is a patriot still; and the covenanter <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the_ordinance_of_covenanting/chapter_xv_seasons_of_covenanting.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Cunningham—</span><span class="citation2">The Ordinance of Covenanting</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bernard/some_letters_of_saint_bernard_abbot_of_clairvaux/letter_xxii_circa_a_d_1129.htm">Letter xxii (Circa A. D. 1129) to Simon, Abbot of S. Nicholas</a><br></span><span class="snippet">To Simon, Abbot of S. Nicholas Bernard consoles him under the persecution of which he is the object. The most pious endeavours do not always have the desired success. What line of conduct ought to be followed towards his inferiors by a prelate who is desirous of stricter discipline. 1. I have learned with much pain by your letter the persecution that you are enduring for the sake of righteousness, and although the consolation given you by Christ in the promise of His kingdom may suffice amply for <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bernard/some_letters_of_saint_bernard_abbot_of_clairvaux/letter_xxii_circa_a_d_1129.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Bernard of Clairvaux—</span><span class="citation2">Some Letters of Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/exodus/32-17.htm">Exodus 32:17 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/exodus/32-17.htm">Exodus 32:17 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/exodus/32-17.htm">Exodus 32:17 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/exodus/32-17.htm">Exodus 32:17 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/exodus/32-17.htm">Exodus 32:17 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/exodus/32-17.htm">Exodus 32:17 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/exodus/32-17.htm">Exodus 32:17 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../exodus/32-16.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Exodus 32:16"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Exodus 32:16" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../exodus/32-18.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Exodus 32:18"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Exodus 32:18" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/exodus/32-17.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3753401421161123"; /* 120 x 600 new */ google_ad_slot = "2486977537"; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 600; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3753401421161123"; /* 200 x 200 Parallel Bible */ google_ad_slot = "7676643937"; google_ad_width = 200; google_ad_height = 200; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>