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August 8, 2026 - Joshua 2 & Proverbs 7 · 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 Saturday, August 8, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joshua two.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Joshua, the son of Nun, sent two men secretly from Shidam as spies, saying, Go, view the land, especially Jericho.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was told to the king of Jericho, Behold, men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring out the men who have come to you who entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she said, True, the men came to me, but I did not know where they came from, and when the gate was about to be closed at dark the men went out.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do not know where the men went.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.
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  SPEAKER_00: But she had brought them up to the roof and hid them with the stalks of flax that she had laid in order on the roof.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords, and the gate was shut as soon as the pursuers had gone out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before the men lay down she came up to them on the roof, and said to them, I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
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  SPEAKER_00: For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sion and Og, whom you devoted to destruction, and as soon as we heard it our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now then, please swear to me by the Lord that as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a sure sign that you will save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the men said to her, Our life for yours even to death, if you do not tell this business of ours, then when the Lord gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then she let them down by rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she lived in the wall, and she said to them, Go into the hills or the pursuers will encounter you, and hide there three days until the pursuers have returned.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then afterward you may go your way.
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  SPEAKER_00: The men said to her, We will be guiltless with respect to this oath of yours that you have made us swear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie the scarlet cord in the window through which you led us down, and ye shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers and all your father's household, then if any one goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we shall be guiltless.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if a hand is laid on anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless with respect to your oath that you have made us swear.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she said, According to your words, so be it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then she sent them away, and they departed, and she tied the scarlet cord in the window.
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  SPEAKER_00: They departed and went into the hills and remained there three days until the pursuers returned, and the pursuers searched all along the way and found nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the two men returned, they came down from the hills and passed over, and came to Joshua, the son of Nun, and they told him all that had happened to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they said to Joshua, Truly the Lord has given all the land into our hands, and also all the inhabitants of the land melt away because of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs seven.
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  SPEAKER_00: My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you, keep my commandments and live, keep my teaching as the apple of your eye, bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart, say to wisdom, you are my sister, and call insight your intimate friend, to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
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  SPEAKER_00: For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice, and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths a young man lacking sense, passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness, and behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart, she is loud and wayward, her feet do not stay at home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.
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  SPEAKER_00: She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face says to him, I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows, so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come, let us take our fill of love till morning, let us delight ourselves with love, for my husband is not at home.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has gone on a long journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: He took a bag of money with him at full moon, he will come home.
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  SPEAKER_00: With much seductive speech she persuades him, with her smooth talk she compels him.
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  SPEAKER_00: All at once he follows her as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast, till an arrow pierces its liver, as a bird rushes into a snare.
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  SPEAKER_00: He does not know what it will cost him his life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let not your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her paths, for many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
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  SPEAKER_00: In today's reading in the second chapter of Joshua, I find it interesting that only two spies were sent out to survey the land.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have to have to confess, I'm I'm assuming, I'm thinking in my mind that Joshua must be thinking, it only took two bold and courageous men the last time to give a good and honest report.
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  SPEAKER_00: Surely this time it should take two again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is all speculation on my part, but I I'm thinking back to the initial exploration of the land of Canaan when the majority came back and said, We were like grasshoppers in their eyes, and it was only Joshua and Caleb that came back and gave uh a God-honoring report.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we see in this chapter a very famous story telling of this historical event where Rahab the prostitute hides these two men, and on her rooftop, there is an agreement made between Rahab and these two spies, these Israeli spies, and we see this boldness that would cause us to tilt our heads a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's apparent here that the king has some kind of understanding that these two men are in the house of Rahab the prostitute.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, whether she welcomed them in or had some kind of discernment from God, we do not know.
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  SPEAKER_00: But she does know and has a certain level of faith that their God, the God of Israel, is a powerful God, and he is the God who is in the heavens and on the earth below.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she gives the report of the terror and fear that are in the hearts of the people of Jericho.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see in verse 11, as soon as they heard speaking of the Exodus and the different accounts of terror in the plagues, she says, Our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, because of what had God had done through his people in this grand exit out of slavery and out of Pharaoh's control.
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  SPEAKER_00: She sees destruction coming, and she knows that the Lord will be with his people and will give them victory.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she is pleading with these spies for safety, for deliverance from destruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: The faith of Rahab here is the highlight in chapter two of Joshua.
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  SPEAKER_00: And though she was not honest with the king of Jericho, she is highlighted in the book of Hebrews for her faith, the faith that she displayed in the God of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: As I read our proverb today, it creates an imagery that I think would be helpful to us as we see this adulterous woman depicted as someone who defeats men and sends them to Sheol.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verses 25, 26, and 27 read.
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  SPEAKER_00: And her house, just in this conclusion here, her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I wrote in my Bible, her ability to capture and destroy is a portal to death and destruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that for men today, uh for for humans, um, for mankind in general, the uh the ways that we're seduced into sin can look can look different than than the ways that this proverb depicts.
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  SPEAKER_00: But a father nonetheless is cautioning his son to keep his words, to treasure them, to bind them, to write them, to say them, and and to speak of insights that a father would give as a dear, dear friend, and to keep what for what purpose?
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  SPEAKER_00: To keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, as I'm thinking about our time in the psalms and the ways that men are charged and encouraged to keep their ways pure as a young man would be encouraged to look at things that are of worth that give life, and instead of fixing on things that would be worthless.
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  SPEAKER_00: I look to the Psalms and and recall uh David's prayer to create in me in Psalm 51, create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me, uh a spirit that would desire the things and submit to the things of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in Psalm 119, how can a man keep his way pure?
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  SPEAKER_00: The answer is to guard it according to your word, to the words of a faithful and loving heavenly father that would command uh his sons and daughters to live in a way that is pleasing to him, a way that is following the straight and narrow path and not turning to the left or turning to the right, and uh where the adulterous woman, as we see in our proverb today, would be found hiding behind a corner to uh to drag a uh um a young man into the her house and to subdue him uh with her words and with her uh enticing behaviors and uh her crafty speech.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a great caution for us today as we think about the different things in this world can have a certain glimmer and glitter and uh allure our hearts and draw our hearts into sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um temptation is is like a lion is crouching at the door, and um we have uh to combat it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have to fix our minds.
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  SPEAKER_00: We we need to put off and put on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Putting on can sometimes look like making some adjustments to your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need to be um seeking the Lord in prayer, like in Psalm 139.
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  SPEAKER_00: Search me, O God, and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts, and see if there be any grievous way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need to call out to the Lord for help, call out to the Lord for insights that would help us see the foolishness of sinful thinking, a sinful living, and so all that we might live a life that is pleasing to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we would confess our sin to God and to one another, we have healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you might have in the past been caught up in sin, in sexual sin that is described in this proverb.
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  SPEAKER_00: But uh my encouragement to you is is to confess if you are struggling, if you are caught and ensnared, like the stag noted in verse 22.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, go to a trusted uh and strong friend in the Lord and confess your sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Confess your sin to God and and make an um an make a plan to to combat this sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Find a way to fight with someone and that would uh lend you accountability and that would be faithful to correct you and faithful to tell you hard things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh God will be surely pleased and honored through that, through actively, uh, through actively taking steps to combat this sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and what an encouragement and and wise caution and guidance that a father would give his son in Proverbs chapter seven.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh this wisdom and insight still proves true today in the year 2026, uh, thousands of years after this proverb was penned.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for joining us today 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 belly.