Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 32:26

26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, Who is on the LORDS side ? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.

He chose that place, 1. as the usual place of judicature. 2. that he might withdraw himself from the company of Idolaters as far as he might. 3. as a fit place of concourse and resort for those that were on Gods side: 4. to prevent the escape of the greatest delinquents, the rest of the camp being probably surrounded with some trench, or such like thing, else gates had been superfluous and unprofitable.

Who will take Gods part and plead his cause against Idolatry and Idolaters?

(i. e.) The most of that tribe, as that universal particle is o[illegible: 1+ letters]t understood, for some of them were destroyed as guilty.