Book of the Wars of the Lord
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Sep 7, 2026
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That pattern makes a collection of heroic songs a very reasonable hypothesis.
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not certain but reasonable and jasher is not the only vanished work that shows up this way in numbers twenty one the bible quotes from something called the book of the wars of the lord even the title sounds like a lost archive of remembered conflict the passage that survives is brief and difficult mentioning places and waterways in a fragment whose full context is gone But the reference tells us that biblical authors could draw on older sources that no longer survive.
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Now imagine what the Book of the Wars of the Lord may have been.
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Was it a military chronicle? A collection of battle poems? A set of geographic traditions tied to Israel's wars? We do not know.
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Its title sounds straightforward, but titles can mislead us into imagining far more than the evidence allows.
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Joshua's long day, David's lament for Saul and Jonathan, but scattered through the biblical text are references to an entire lost library.
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A world of documents behind the documents.
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Take the book of the wars of the Lord.
Chuck MisslerHOST
There is an unusual book alluded to in the Scripture.
Chuck MisslerHOST
In Numbers 21, verse 14, it says, Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord, what he did in the Red Sea and in the brooks of Arnon, and it goes on to make, book of the wars.
Chuck MisslerHOST
There's apparently somewhere, I don't know if anyone has a copy, but there's somewhere, there's a book of the wars of the Lord.
Chuck MisslerHOST
Now, I'm fond of pointing out a specific case where he fought in ways that many people don't realize.
Chuck MisslerHOST
Now we love music and we're very indebted to the people who always bring worship here for our studies each evening that we do this.
Mike SlaterHOST
But Second, God hates sin, but everything is within his purpose.
Mike SlaterHOST
I want to ask Doug Wilson about this line, but in Numbers 21.14, it says that God has a book of the wars of the Lord.
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A book of the wars of the Lord.
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What does that
Mike SlaterHOST
mean? And one we don't know for sure.
Dave RobbinsHOST
Who decided which books should be included in the Bible? What criteria make a book scripture? Why 66 books and not the Apocrypha or the Book of Enoch? Who has authority, God or the church? And what does biblical canon have to do with end-time Bible prophecy? Well, you're not going to want to miss this powerful episode of the End Time Show, providing peace in the last days.
Dave RobbinsHOST
Good afternoon, everybody.
Dave RobbinsHOST
Dave Robbins with End Time Ministries.
Dave RobbinsHOST
And I'm going to keep a promise.
Dave RobbinsHOST
I had a caller, I think it was Karen from Colorado, that called in on Friday's open line, and she asked this question.
Dave RobbinsHOST
She said, how can I explain that my 66 books in like a King James version of the Bible aren't missing information that's included in, let's say, a Catholic Bible, which has 73 books.
Dave RobbinsHOST
And I got to apologize to Karen because I only had two minutes left in the program and I couldn't give her a very thorough answer.
Dave RobbinsHOST
But Karen, if you're listening today, I'm going to provide a much better answer on today's show.