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October 9, 2026 - 1 Samuel 6 & Proverbs 17:21-25 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Lamp and Light Bob Rooting Plan, where we are seeking to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, with God's word letting the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Josiah Smith, joined by Tyler Sanborn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Friday, October 9th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen attently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1 Samuel 6.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, What shall we do with the Ark of the Lord?
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell us with what we shall send it to its place.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said, If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return him a guilt offering.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand does not turn away from you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they said, What is the guilt offering that we should return to him?
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  SPEAKER_00: They answered, Five golden tumors and five golden mice, according to the numbers of the lords of the Philistines, for the same plague was on all of you and on your lords.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you must make images of your tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land, and give glory to the God of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you and your gods and your land.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts?
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  SPEAKER_00: After he had dealt severely with them, did they not send the people away, and they departed?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now then take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home away from them, and take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart, and put in a box at its side the figures of gold, which you are returning to him as a guilt offering.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then send it off and let it go its way, and watch.
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  SPEAKER_00: If it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth Shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us, it happened to us by coincidence.
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  SPEAKER_00: The men did so, and took two milk cows and yoked them to the cart and shut up their calves at home.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they put the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the box with the golden mice, and the images of their tumors.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the cows went straight in the direction of Bethshemesh, along one highway, lowing as they went.
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  SPEAKER_00: They turned neither to the right nor to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the border of Beth Shemesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now the people of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley, and when they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, they rejoiced to see it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cart came into the field of Joshua, of Beth Shemesh, and stopped there.
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  SPEAKER_00: A great stone was there, and they split up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the box that was beside it, in which were the golden figures, and set them upon the great stone.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrifice sacrifices on that day to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when the five lords of the Philistines saw it, they returned that day to Ekron.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are the golden tumors that the Philistines returned as a guilt offering to the Lord, one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron, and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and unwalled villages.
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  SPEAKER_00: The great stone beside which they set down the ark of the Lord is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Bethshemesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he struck some of the men of Bethshemesh because they looked upon the ark of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: He struck seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the Lord had struck the people with a great blow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the men of Beth Shemesh said, Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God, and to whom shall he go away from us?
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  SPEAKER_00: So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirath Jeriam, saying, The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord, come down and take it up to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs 17, verses twenty-one through twenty-five.
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  SPEAKER_01: He who asires a fool gets himself sorrow, and a f the father of a fool has no joy.
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  SPEAKER_01: A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
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  SPEAKER_01: The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.
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  SPEAKER_01: The discerning sets his face towards wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
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  SPEAKER_01: A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even they were calling to mind, kind of remembering themselves, what God did in Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just years and years and years later, the stories of the miraculous divine work of God to deliver his people from the hand of the Egyptians continues to reverberate through the nations, even pagan nations.
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  SPEAKER_00: They knew uh all too well the stories of the plagues, the ten plagues that struck Pharaoh and the nation of Egypt down.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so they only had a couple.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had mice and they had tumors, and they were done.
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  SPEAKER_00: They didn't want any more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and so they make a plan to take the Ark of the Covenant that they had stolen in battle.
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  SPEAKER_00: They've had it at this point for seven months, it says in verse one, and they send it back, return to sender.
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  SPEAKER_00: They recognized ultimately, and this define this divine display again of God's power and his sovereignty and his authority.
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  SPEAKER_00: They recognize that, and so they wanted to send it back, and they even were trying to see is this the Lord that's doing this, or is this some coincidence?
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, we see very clearly now that this was the hand of the Lord against the Philistines, and we continue to see the nation of Israel not do things, and we're actually even tomorrow in 1 Samuel 7, we're gonna see they'll continue to not really obey what God has set forth in his law concerning the Ark of the Covenant, how it is to be handled.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see even here at the end of 1 Samuel 6 that there are 70 men that lose their lives because they're looking uh directly onto the Ark of the Covenant and they weren't supposed to be doing that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it's either not covered or somehow becomes uncovered.
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  SPEAKER_01: But even in in transit, when the the Levites are transporting the Ark of the Covenant, there's layers.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's covered by the veil, it's covered by goat skin, it's covered by blue cloth.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you have to think that somehow, in some way, the the results of the Philistines seeing this Ark of the Covenant, whether it's transporting it into their lands or from city to city, uh, they are suffering the effects just like Israel is here at the end of this chapter.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so it's uh it's God's God's law, God's commands not kept, and the results follow after that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna transition over to our time here in Proverbs chapter 17.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have two more days in Proverbs 17, so we'll wrap it up uh tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_01: But here in verse 21, he who sires a fool gets himself sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we're gonna see fool, uh, the term fool here at the beginning and end of this section in Proverbs 17, verses 21 through 25, and that the the one who hires a fool, who sires a fool, is going to bring into his his business, into his home, wherever this fool is working and operating in, it's gonna be sorrow.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the father of a fool has no joy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we can think about the the failures of uh of sons or the failures of people that we might see uh throughout whether it's uh court cases um that are happening nationally or people that are um being being arrested or things that you might see in town um on on social media or wherever you might find the news.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fools, fools just do foolish things, and as a result, they they cause relational strain within families, within communities.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as you think about um headlines and the things that are going wrong in the world, the evil that is taking place, the foolish decisions, the wickedness that's happening in our world today, it draws negative attention to different cities, different towns that these foolish acts are taking place.
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  SPEAKER_01: And on the other hand, a joyful heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you have the fool and you have a joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, where does our joy come from?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, it comes from the Lord, it comes from knowing Him, it comes from obeying Him, a joyful heart, choosing to put and set your minds, um, your mind on the things that would please God.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what's gonna bring you joy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Finding uh finding the truth and character of God and relishing and chewing on that as you reflect and meditate on the word of God, that's gonna bring joy and hope, and it's gonna lighten your heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's good medicine for your heart, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's there's no hope for tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's no there's no way out of the situation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who's gonna save me now?
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  SPEAKER_01: There's nothing, nothing for me to look forward to.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and that comes from a mind, a crushed spirit is is face and eyes are not fixed on the Lord, they're fixed on the circumstances or fixed on uh the individual inabilities to escape from a certain situation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you when you cast your eyes on on the immediate circumstances, on your own strength and your own ability to get out of uh your current position, it is crushing.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is you feel the weight of your inability and your mortal man because you are not the Almighty, you are not the eternal God who is able to accomplish for far more than what you or I could accomplish.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and this little section here in Proverbs 17 brackets really well, because in verse 25, we see something kind of parallel to verse 21.
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  SPEAKER_00: In verse 25, it says, A foolish son is a grief to his father.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, we saw in verse 21, the father of a fool has no joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, verse 25, again, a foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, this the fool brings sorrow and even a sense of shame to his father.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see even in verse 24, the discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: This reminds me of Paul's teaching in Colossians 3 to set your mind on things that are above where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not set your mind on things that are below, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So we have this idea even in the New Testament where Paul says, Hey, set your mind on the things of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not set your minds on the things of the earth and the flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, we see that parallel here in Proverbs 17.
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  SPEAKER_00: The discerning sets his face toward wisdom above to the things of the Lord, the fear of the Lord, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: They are searching the earth for earthly wisdom, for earthly riches, earthly treasure.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, um, those things are prone to rust, to moths destroying, to thieves stealing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and so here we see the discerning sets his face towards wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh we see even kind of a parallelism in verse 21 and 25.
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  SPEAKER_00: A father uh of a fool has no joy, a foolish son is a grief to his father, and then we ultimately see in verse 24 that what separates the wise from the fool is essentially where you keep your gaze, whether your gaze is kept on the things that are above, or in this instance on wisdom, which comes from the the fear of the Lord, or the wisdom or foolishness, I should say, that's uh kind of your gaze set on things that are below, the things on the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: So some really good reminders here, and of course, verse 23 the wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's a a sneakiness that you know, the the lack of wisdom, the lack of the fear of the Lord, the even kind of buying into the lie that the Lord doesn't see and know all makes you feel like in the cover of darkness, you can get away with uh being a cheat, a liar, accepting a bribe, subverting justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: But ultimately we recognize that the Lord knows all, he sees all, and ultimately justice and vengeance belong to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So some really great proverbs here for us to meditate on and uh just to prayerfully ask that the Spirit of God would bring the kind of wisdom that that should be brought into our lives as a result of submitting to what God has said in his word.
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  SPEAKER_00: But thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
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