Of them that sing— The Hebrew word ענות anoth, signifies singing alternately, or by antiphons, as was the custom both in sacred and prophane worship.
Note; How often does the sinner in fatal security thus sing and dance on the brink of the grave, though all God's fiery law is armed against him!
Moses, with the sacred charge of the tables of the covenant, now descends. Joshua waited for him, and the noise in the camp soon reaches their ears. Joshua was a man of war, and construes it the sound of war; but Moses knew the cause, and these songs of melody were in his ears jarring discord. Shall the praises of a golden calf, shall the songs of the drunkard, and the wanton strains of pleasure, ring so loud? And shall we be silent to, or ashamed of, the praises of our Immanuel? God forbid!