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September 21, 2026 - Judges 15 & Proverbs 15:21-25 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan, where we are seeking to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength with God's word lighting the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Tyler Sanborn, Student Ministry Director at Compass Bible Church South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Monday, September 21st, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Judges 15.
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  SPEAKER_00: After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a young goat, and he said, I will go into my wife in the chamber.
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  SPEAKER_00: But her father would not allow him to go in, and her father said, I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she?
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  SPEAKER_00: Please take her instead.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samson said to them, This time I shall be innocent in regard to the Philistines, when I do them harm.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Samson went and caught three hundred foxes and took torches, and he turned them tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of their tails.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and set fire to the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the Philistines said, Who has done this?
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  SPEAKER_00: And they said, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Philistine camp came up and burned her and her father with fire, and Samson said to them, If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you, and after that I will quit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock at Edom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and made a raid on Lehi.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the men of Judah said, Why have you come up against us?
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  SPEAKER_00: They said, We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Edom and said to Samson, Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us?
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  SPEAKER_00: What then is this that you have done to us?
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they said to him, We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines, and Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said to him, No, we will only bind you and give you into their hands.
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  SPEAKER_00: We will surely not kill you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.
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  SPEAKER_00: When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands, and he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck one thousand men.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with a jawbone of a donkey have I struck down a thousand men.
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  SPEAKER_00: As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand, and that place was called Ramath Lehi, and he was very thirsty, and he called upon the Lord and said, You have granted this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and shall I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?
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  SPEAKER_00: And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it, and when he drank his spirit returned, and he revived.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore, the name of it was called Enhakor, it is at Lehi to this day, and he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs fifteen verses twenty one through twenty five.
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  SPEAKER_00: Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense, but a man of understanding walks straight ahead.
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  SPEAKER_00: Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
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  SPEAKER_00: To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season how good it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but maintains the widow's boundaries.
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  SPEAKER_00: Judges fifteen details the back and forth between Samson and the Philistines.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samson is not happy, he's not pleased that his wife has been given to his companion, and he sets fire to the town and causes it to uh to burn up.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's harvest time and their food.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the Philistine food is being consumed by fire, um, by the the the handiwork of foxes as their tails are set ablaze and they're running about uh the Philistine towns, and uh Samson is uh is now on the run as they are pursuing him.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Philistines are looking uh to take him down, and uh the men of Judah are involved in this chapter.
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  SPEAKER_00: The the men of Judah are uh three thousand in number and are uh assuring Samson our our goal is not to to kill you, our goal is to deliver you over to the Philistines as they are ruling over us, and we see a heroic feat where Samson slays one thousand Philistine men with the jawbone of a donkey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is um Samson again interacting with a carcass, with a dead animal, which is in direct violation of the Nazarite vow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we see him again uh stepping into sin, choosing foolishly, choosing to break his vow, uh, and in this process, a thousand Philistine men are slayed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's this um this quote from Samson here uh towards the end of the the chapter in verse sixteen, heaps upon heaps.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just imagining uh just the the bodies, uh as graphic as it may seem, the bodies piled up uh at the hands of Samson in the jawbone uh of a donkey, and uh he is uh revived after after slaying so many Philistines, he is thirsty and there is no water, and God provides miraculously, he uh provides a stream of water for Samson to uh to help him revive, and his spirit returns to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at the end of this chapter, we see Samson judging Israel in in the time in the days of the Philistines for twenty years.
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  SPEAKER_00: In our Proverbs section today, we see the man of understanding, those who walk straight in his ways, they walk ahead and they don't they don't lack sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: They they are full of understanding, full of the law of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: But on the other hand, folly is a joy, that's bliss.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ignorance is bliss for the man who lacks a sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh as we think about the ways that people have invested into our lives, um, spiritual parents, our own parents, as they take God's word and and give us counsel with it, uh we can have um our our cornermen, if you will, holding God's word, holding the scriptures and and reminding us, showing us where we are uh where we're doing well, where we are maybe off the tracks, and verse 22 uh draws our attention to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Without counsel, plans fail, but with many advisors, they succeed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's to our benefit that we would ask for help to ask people, hey, would you would you look into my life, look into my plans, and tell me tell me if if there's any any sense in this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is there foolishness anywhere baked into this plan that I'm making?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, whether you're going to be pursuing a different job, pursuing uh relationships or or anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's good to have uh advisors that would be able to speak wisdom into your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we saturate our minds and our our our hearts with the word of God, as we continue on in our Bible reading plan this year, I just want to encourage us all to do exactly that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be an encouragement to those who are in our in our families, in our life groups, uh friends that we have in church.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 23 draws our attention to an apt answer and how uh a suitable or an appropriate or a logical or a wise answer is going to bring joy to a man uh in a word and season, uh a well-timed word or encouragement, or maybe um an instruction or a correction, how good it is when we have an apt answer and what better place to find answers for this life in a life that we seek to please the Lord and encourage others than finding this source of wisdom, this source of knowledge and understanding in the Bible, in the Word of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So finding an apt answer, where are we going to find those wise words, the words that are fitting for the occasion?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna find those in the Word of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the path of life, verse 24, leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.
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  SPEAKER_00: And continuing into this idea that wisdom comes from God, this reality and truth, that it's good for us to act with care, to be patient, to use good judgment as we consider our next actions, our thoughts, and what we say, we need to be thinking ahead and really weighing the outcome of our actions, of our words.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and that's what verse 24 does for the prudent, for the one who takes great care.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's the path to life, the one who's taking care to assess and evaluate um decisions in light of what God has said in his word, so that he may turn away from death, turn away from Sheol, turn away from sin and the death that it brings.
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  SPEAKER_00: And lastly, verse 25, in our Proverbs section today, the Lord tears down the house of the proud.
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  SPEAKER_00: God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the second part of verse 25 draws our attention to God's care and provision for the widows.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a command for the believer to take good care of the orphan and and the widow, and and this is God's uh promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but maintains the widow's boundaries.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord is looking out for his people looking out for those in great need, and he does so often by uh the generosity, the love, and the care from the body of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and as I I reflect about the the body of Christ, and I reflect on this past weekend, uh, heavenward and all the things that we learned and all the encouragement that there was, uh, and and rich fellowship and and great teaching and and preaching from God's word, uh, both from Pastor Charlie and Pastor Josiah this weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I'm encouraged to uh to continue to find ways to uh to be an encouragement and point people towards heaven, point people towards uh the the time and the place that we will be with God uh face to face uh forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh I hope it was a great encouragement for all of you who were uh attending the different sessions and the banquet and the picnic.
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  SPEAKER_00: So an encouragement for you this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Strive forward, uh loving God in humility and and considering uh the good rewards that God will give to his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thanks so much for joining us on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more information about Compass Bible Church South Valley, visit compass bible sv.org.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep reading, keep growing.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.