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May 19, 2026 - Numbers 2 & Psalm 108 · 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 Tuesday, May 19th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Numbers two.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, The people of Israel shall camp each by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers' houses.
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  SPEAKER_00: They shall camp facing the tent of meeting on every side.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those to camp on the east side towards the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the chief of the people of Judah being Nashan, the son of Aminadab, his company as listed being seventy four thousand six hundred.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Isakar, the chief of the people of Isakar being Nethanel, the son of Zuar, his company as listed being fifty four thousand four hundred.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the tribe of Zebulin, the chief of the people of Zebulin being Eliab, the son of Helon, his company as listed being fifty seven thousand four hundred.
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  SPEAKER_00: All those listed of the camp of Judah by their companies were one hundred and eighty six thousand four hundred.
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  SPEAKER_00: They shall set out first on the march.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Rubin by their companies, the chief of the people of Rubin being Elizar, the son of Shadur, his company as listed being forty six thousand five hundred, and those to the camp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon, the chief of the people of Simeon being Shelium, the son of Zurashidai, his company as listed being fifty nine thousand three hundred, then the tribe of Gad, the chief of the people of Gad being Eliasaph, the son of Reoel, his company as listed being forty five thousand six hundred and fifty.
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  SPEAKER_00: All those listed of the camp of Reuben by their companies were one hundred and fifty one thousand four hundred and fifty.
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  SPEAKER_00: They shall set out second.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps.
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  SPEAKER_00: As they camp, so shall they set out, each in position, standard by standard.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim, by their companies, the chief of the people of Ephraim being Elishema, the son of Amihud, this company as listed being forty thousand five hundred.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh, the chief of the people of Manasseh being Gamel, the son of Pedazar, his company as listed being thirty two thousand two hundred, then the tribe of Benjamin, the chief of the people of Benjamin being Abedan, the son of Gideoni, his company as listed being thirty five thousand four hundred.
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  SPEAKER_00: All those listed of the camp of Ephraim by their companies were one hundred and eight thousand one hundred.
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  SPEAKER_00: They shall set out third on the march.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan by their companies, the chief of the people of Dan being Ahazir, the son of Amishadai, his company as listed being sixty two thousand seven hundred, and those that camp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher, the chief of the people of Asher being Pagael, the son of Akran, his company as listed being forty one thousand five hundred, then the tribe of Naphtali, the chief of the people of Naphtali being Ahira, the son of Enan, his company as listed being fifty three thousand four hundred.
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  SPEAKER_00: All those listed of the camp of Dan were one hundred and fifty seven thousand six hundred.
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  SPEAKER_00: They shall set out last standard by standard.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are the people of Israel as listed by their fathers' houses, all those listed in the camps by their companies were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the Levites were not listed among the people of Israel as the Lord commanded Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thus did the people of Israel according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so they camped by their standards, and so they set out each one in his clan according to his father's house.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm one eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: My heart is steadfast, O God, I will sing and make melody with all my being.
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  SPEAKER_00: Awake, O harp and lyre, I will awake the dawn.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will sing praises to you among the nations, for your steadfast love is great above the heavens, your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, let your glory be over all the earth, that your beloved ones may be delivered, give salvation by your right hand and answer me.
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  SPEAKER_00: God has promised in his holiness, with exaltation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the valley of Suchath.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine, Ephraim is my helmet, Judah my scepter, Moab is my wash basin, upon Edom I cast my shoe, over Philistia I shout in triumph.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who will bring me to the fortified city?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who will lead me to Edom?
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you not rejected us, O God?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you not go out, O God, with our armies?
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  SPEAKER_00: O grant us help against the foe, for vain is the salvation of man.
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  SPEAKER_00: With God we shall do valiantly.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is he who will tread down our foes.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you've ever taught elementary school age students, ever led a group, and if you've ever needed to take them anywhere, you've probably had them in a line.
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  SPEAKER_00: And without fail, every time I do this, all the hands go up, and each one is asking, Can I be the line leader?
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I be the line leader?
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh without fail, I I choose who will lead uh the line, and then who will be second, who will be third, and so on.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and that's a little bit of what we're seeing here as God spoke to Moses as we see in Numbers chapter two, creating order and uh creating distinction between the tribes of Israel and how they are to be arranged.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's no easy task to direct and lead uh a nation going from place to place in the wilderness by foot, but God is arranging his people and and how they are, when they camp, uh where they are supposed to pitch their tents, in what direction, what orientation they are to be facing, and uh they all point towards the tent of meeting, towards the tabernacle where God's presence dwelled, where they would bring their worship.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is um another one of those chapters where we see great detail in how God is instructing his people to to live their lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh he's literally picking who is going to uh lead, who's gonna be in front, and in the front of this uh this lineup will be the tribe of Judah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the middle, we have the Levites who would be setting up and tearing down the tabernacle and all their priestly duties, they would be well protected with six tribes in front of them and six tribes behind them as they set out to march from place to place.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh each tribe in this chapter will have a flag or banner that would represent the people within.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these flags, some commentators would say, uh, are maybe a similar color to the gems that would be seen in the the priestly uh attire, the gemstones that the priests would would wear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, some people would describe it might have something to do with um the ways that uh Israel or Jacob would bless uh at the end of his uh end of his life in the book of Genesis.
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  SPEAKER_00: It would have something to do with that, but there's no clear distinction of what they look like, what colors, how they were uh decorated.
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  SPEAKER_00: But nonetheless, we see God giving clear direction on the order and the arrangement of his people as they lived and as they moved from place to place.
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  SPEAKER_00: And something to really take a look at here is the obedience.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh God's people are following the lead, they are arranging themselves, they are conducting themselves in where they live and how they move in obedience and faithfulness to the word that Moses spoke on behalf of Yahweh.
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  SPEAKER_00: So each camp, as we look to the last verse here in chapter two, thus did the people of Israel according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, everything that Moses was telling them they were doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they camped by their standards, and so they set out each one in his clan according to his father's house.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as we look to the psalm today, Psalm 188, we see uh a reference, a reference uh to the ways that Israel would go out in battle.
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  SPEAKER_00: They would go out um and call upon the Lord and lift praises to his name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verses one and two and three highlight the the praises lifted up to the Lord and how they would go about doing that with their with their mouths, uh, with different instruments, singing melody to the Lord and His holiness, his um his worthiness to be praised is on display.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um there's imagery here that would bring the the singer's eyes as they would be singing this song up to the heavens, up to the clouds, looking up, and the the strength that God provides his people will be the ultimate source of strength and the ultimate means of provision as they go into battle.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, we we look at the the middle section of our psalm here, um verses seven, eight, and nine, and this is this portion is pointing uh towards the the land that God would lead his people to as they are wandering uh in the wilderness as God is leading them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, in the book of Numbers, we we see uh Shechem and and Sucheth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these are uh locations on the other side of the Jordan River in the promised land that God would be leading his uh people to.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there is uh references to Ephraim and Judah, and and the the scepter mentioned here in verse eight in this psalm reminds us that the tribe of Judah was the ruling tribe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Judah, my scepter, and Judah is in the front, leading the way as they would move place to place.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this this makes sense to us as we think about the kings of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: We think of David and in Solomon and the ways that the men uh of Judah, the kingly leaders, would would come from this tribe.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we finish the psalm here in verse 12, we see a call, uh, a call to God to provide salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's in vain that salvation is accomplished through man and the people of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: The song of David is is calling out for God to provide the victory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh in the Proverbs, we are reminded that it is good to train and be prepared for battle, to sharpen the sword and the spear and the training of horses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the horse is made ready uh for the day of battle, but victory belongs to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the the praise and the honor is given to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh it is he, verse 13 says, who will tread down our foes?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's God that provides the victory, it's God that leads the way, it's God that is providing the strength uh and the endurance and the courage, the bravery, the determination.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, if if God is for us, the uh the people of Israel would sing, it who can be against us?
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  SPEAKER_00: If God is for us, who who will prevail over us?
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is a great reminder for us to consider the ways that we're we're striving and working hard, and uh and the ways that we begin our day, uh all the the tents that are in the in the book of Numbers, as we see that the encampments, they're all facing towards the tabernacle.
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  SPEAKER_00: So at the beginning of each day, as you leave your tent to to attend to your responsibilities, you would be facing the place that God's uh that God's presence was in the center uh of the camp.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a great reminder for us to begin each one of our days, uh just reminding ourselves that God is very much uh alive.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is our our source of hope and strength.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's he that leads us, it's it is he that provides for us, and he deserves our worship.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we begin each day just worshiping God uh with prayer, worshiping God, committing our day to him, committing our our lives to him, and even maybe playing a song or singing a song of praise in our hearts, or maybe even out loud uh to the Lord, giving him the recognition and the praises that he deserves for for he is um high and lifted up, his faithfulness reaches to the clouds, as we were reminded here in verse four, and he is exalted above the heavens, his glory is over all the earth, and that's a great encouragement to us as we begin our Tuesday morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: So thanks for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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