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A Lost Book of Victories
Commentators agree this verse quotes from a now-lost work called "the book of the Wars of the Lord." This book was likely a collection of sacred poems or chronicles celebrating the victories God gave to His people, showing that biblical writers sometimes referenced other contemporary sources to make their point.
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Albert Barnes
On Numbers 21:14
18th Century
Theologian
Of “the book of the wars of the Lord” nothing is known except what may be gathered from the passage before us. It was apparently a collection of sa…
Charles Ellicott
On Numbers 21:14–15
19th Century
Bishop
The book of the wars of the Lord.— Nothing is known about this book. The last days of Moses, as Baumgarten has observed, may have been a s…
John Gill
On Numbers 21:14
17th Century
Pastor
Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord
A history of wars in former times, which the Lord had suffe…
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Matthew Henry
On Numbers 21:10–20
17th Century
Minister
We have here the journeys of the children of Israel, until they came to the plains of Moab, from where they passed over the Jordan into Canaan. The…