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October 5, 2026 - 1 Samuel 2 & Proverbs 17:5-8 · 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, October 5th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a quick summary of 1 Samuel 2.
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  SPEAKER_00: We open this chapter with Hannah's prayer and her response to all that God has done in giving her a child.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we think to chapter 1, uh, the the commitment that Hannah has concerning her son Samuel and how he would be committed to the Lord and in service of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here we see a great excitement, a great joy that's honoring and bringing God glory and just reflecting on God's God's power, his work, his ability, and and the ways that he works.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we do a we have to take a sharp turn and see the worthlessness of Eli's sons who are priests and who are uh making all the wrong moves, uh, very self-centered, self uh self-honoring, and they are using their position and abusing their position as priests in just about every way that you can think of.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these sons aren't receiving correction, they're not receiving rebuke from their father, and ultimately this will lead to not only their destruction, but the destruction of the family line, and we'll see at the end of this chapter what will come of this family line in the future contrast between Samuel and the current servants of the Lord, Eli and his sons.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs 17 verses 5 through 8.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever mocks the poor insults his maker.
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  SPEAKER_00: He who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fine speech is not becoming to a fool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Still less is false speech to a prince.
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  SPEAKER_00: A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of the one who gives it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wherever he turns, he prospers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Recently, a student from South Valley Student Ministries asked one of our small group leaders, How did God's people pray in the Old Testament?
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  SPEAKER_00: What did it look like?
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  SPEAKER_00: What did it sound like?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did they pray to God?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did they pray to Jesus?
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  SPEAKER_00: If there was no spirit indwelling them, how did they call out to God?
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  SPEAKER_00: How were they led by God?
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see in chapter two here today, we see a prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see a prayer from Hannah and how she is calling out, praising the Lord, exalting his name, and showing adoration and just thanksgiving for all that God has done in her life as she's reflecting on her son, who is now committed to a life of service in God's house.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is great, this is great news for her, great, a great joy, a proud mother and um a mom that is looking to give God all the credit and all the glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in verse 3, I was thinking of the reality that God gives grace to the humble but opposes the proud.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and throughout this prayer, we see Hannah calling out that there is no one like the Lord, there is no one beside the Lord, there is no rock like her God, there's no rock like the God of Israel, like Yahweh.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her mouth is full of praises and worship, separating all the other wonders and powers and beings that are created.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's only one God, only one Yahweh, one creator, one sustainer of life, and she's reflecting on her barren state and how God has richly blessed her.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for her, there's more children to come.
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  SPEAKER_00: She might not know it yet, but God is going to give Hannah more children.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is this is a great encouragement and a great excitement to see and read in the scriptures as someone who is suffering, as someone who is going through a great trial in her life, is receiving the kindness of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in verse 7, though she's praying out and crying out to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: He brings low and he exalts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything that's happened in her life, all the things that she is aware of in the world, she accredits to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is sovereign and in control of all the things, including uh the ability for a woman to conceive and a great, it's a great mystery and and an excitement for um when we hear about women that have gone for for a long time without being able to conceive.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, and there are women that go their entire lives in this reality that they're not able to have a child.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here Hannah is looking to God and saying, It's only because of you, it's only because of your providence and in your goodness and your kindness that you would bless me with a child, and and she's lifting high the name of the Lord and reflecting on on her life and and just praising God for the strength and and the great God that that he is to her.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no one like her God, there's no one like the rock of ages, the the rock that is Yahweh, and for for great reasons, she is she is declaring that God is protecting those who are faithful in verse 9.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's kind of a transition point for us as we think about the future of Eli's worthless sons, as a superscript says above verse 12 in my Bible.
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  SPEAKER_00: These two sons of Eli, their biggest problem, their biggest heart issue is that they do not know the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't know him, they don't submit to him, they don't honor him, and they don't fear him, and their lives are evident, full of this reality, because they are they're taking some pretty bold um steps to serve themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're defiant, there's spiritual rebellion, there's uh there's a a greed about them where they're looking to fill their bellies and and just re- outright reject all the the commands and instructions for uh for their roles and service of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then they're taking their position and abusing abusing women in this context, and they're just outright wicked guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: These guys are all living for themselves, they're all about their needs and their desires, and it's upsetting their father.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eli is saying, Why do you do such things?
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  SPEAKER_00: I hear of all the evil dealings from all these people.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, my sons, it is no good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're saying awful things about you, and it's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these sons reject their father's rebuke.
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  SPEAKER_00: They they ignore it, they they continue on in their own way, so their strength is going to be cut off, their their line will come to an end.
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  SPEAKER_00: These sons will be cut off, they will die on the same day, and God is making a promise here at the end of chapter two.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is going to raise up for himself a faithful priest who shall do according to what is in God's heart and in God's mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as the title of this book reads, Samuel is gonna be a man that that walks with the Lord faithfully, and that that is pursuing God in a way that does honor him, obeying God's commands and being faithful, a faithful priest who is going to usher in the line of kings.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna see Samuel anointing one who is not abusing his position for selfish gain, self-gratification or self-glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Samuel is a man that is going to not grieve God's heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope you're looking forward to seeing what God accomplishes and how God glorifies himself and establishes his leaders that he chooses in this book as we look to King David and the life of Samuel after the time period of Judges.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as we look over to our Proverbs section in verses five through eight in chapter 17 today, I want us to think about the the value of human life in the sense that we are made in the image of God, made to worship and glorify our Creator.
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  SPEAKER_00: And verse five opens us with a caution: whoever mocks the poor insults his maker.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who are scoffing or looking down or talking, talking poorly of, making fun of those who are poor, it's an insult to his maker.
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  SPEAKER_00: Capital M, speaking about God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see calamity around us all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: These people have something coming to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's judgment coming for these people who are taking pleasure.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's joy involved somehow in the way that they see loss of human life.
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  SPEAKER_00: In contrast, we see life in generations here in verse 6.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.
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  SPEAKER_00: The generations here in this the value of life, the way that God designed be fruitful and multiply, there is great joy and blessing that comes from grandchildren.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I I recall the time when we had Sadie and I had our first child, and the the ways that my parents were just so excited, so so full of joy and happiness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then later my brother and then my sister would have children, and just the the grandchildren that my in-laws have, and the grandchildren that my parents have.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is truly a blessing from the Lord, and there is an honor and a privilege to uh to have the gift of life, to have a sustained life, to see, to live to this point in where you can enjoy and watch grandchildren grow up.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is a blessing from the Lord, and it's a gift, and the glory of children is their fathers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we as children think to to glorify God by submitting and obeying our parents and honoring them, showing them respect.
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  SPEAKER_00: So children play a role in bringing honor to their to their fathers or to their parents, but also there's this element that a child's honor or reputation and sense of value or worth is is bound up into a parent's right standing or or their character or or their reputation.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a father's uh character attributes is the glory of a child, as a child is growing up underneath that parent, growing up under the discipline and instruction of that parent.
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  SPEAKER_00: The more that a a parent is striving to be like Christ, is emulating Christ, that is a direct blessing and a and a gift to their children.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the glory of children is their fathers.
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  SPEAKER_00: So praise God for fathers and mothers that are faithfully pursuing the Lord and giving that gift of just modeled obedience to their children.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a great encouragement for all of us parents that are that are wanting to to show our children what it is to follow after the Lord faithfully.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in our next verse, in Proverbs 17:7, we see fine speech is not becoming to a fool, still less is false speech to a prince.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we can kind of flip these these connections with speech, whether it's false speech or fine speech and the fool and the prince, and we see that there's there's not an association or a connection between fine speech and a fool or false speech and a prince.
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  SPEAKER_00: We would see fine speech and the prince going together and false speech and a fool.
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  SPEAKER_00: So those who are foolish, you're not gonna be seeing fine speech or wisdom coming out of their mouths.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and if you uh look at the prince, you're you're not gonna see false speech, at least in God's design, you're gonna see uh a wise prince speaking uh with great care and great intelligence, great wisdom, and in the opposite, the fool uh with with foolishness or false speech or folly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And our final verse today has a bit of an ironic twist to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of the one who gives it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wherever he turns, he prospers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's kind of a deceiving thing that a person who would be making bribes has, or they they think that they can control and manipulate and and have some kind of magical power uh in their own eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what happens when they when their bribes are are seemingly benefiting them.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like they have some kind of some kind of authority or power, and everything they do, wherever they turn, they they seem to have some kind of good standing or prosperity that comes from their efforts to to manipulate and bribe uh to get what they want.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's uh there's an irony here, and this isn't one that we would see as as face value in this proverb section, but we see that the person who is using bribes to get what they want are in a fog or if they have blurry vision.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're not living in reality, they they're living uh in a destructive illusion that they can get what they want by bribes, by paying people off, and not doing the work or uh doing fair business in a way that would would honor the the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the scriptures, we see that those who are wicked are the ones who are offering out bribes or receiving bribes, and it's those who are greedy for unjust gain.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are the kind of people that are associated with one another, those who are receiving bribes, those who are uh who are winking, who are are pursing their lips, the the people here that are um associated with the person who are who are making who is making bribes would be the the fool, the one who is not living in God's uh design and his order where hard work is good, hard work does bring glory, and there's no shortcuts, there's no manipulation to get to the finish line.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's honest, it's it's work that is still stained by the curse, it's hard work in this world, but nonetheless, we can still work in a way that pleases the Lord, that is honoring to him, and that doesn't take shortcuts and doesn't manipulate people along the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I hope that was an encouragement to you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for 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 compassbiblesv.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 pebble.