14:14 The Lord will fight. This phrase indicates the origin of the theme of the Lord as “divine Warrior,” celebrated in ch. 15. War in the ancient world was viewed as a sacred undertaking in which the honor of the deity was at stake. In Israel, God was the “God of the armies of Israel” (1 Sam. 17:45), but also the “Lord of Hosts” (i.e., the Lord of the armies of heaven, the architect of Israel’s victories and the inflicter of Israel’s defeats). An early account of Israel’s conquests under the Lord’s leadership was called “the Book of the Wars of the Lord” (Num. 21:14). The theology of Holy War, which arose as a result, finds expression throughout both the Old and New Testament.