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September 7, 2026 - Judges 3 & Proverbs 14:9-12 · Lamp and Light Bible Reading Plan

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_01: 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_01: I'm Tyler Sanborn, Student Ministry Director at Compass Bible Church South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today is Monday, September 7th, 2026.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_01: Judges three.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_01: Now these are the nations that the Lord left to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_01: These are the nations, the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidians and the Hivites, who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Herman as far as Labo Hamath.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_01: They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_01: So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizites, the Hivites, and the Jebisites, and their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Ashroth.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_01: Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Kushan Rishethim, king of Mesopotamia, and the people of Israel served Kushan Rishethim eight years.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_01: But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_01: Othniel, son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, the spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he judged Israel.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_01: He went out to war, and the Lord gave Kishon Rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, into his hand, and his hand prevailed over Kushan Rishatim.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_01: So the land had rest for forty years.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: Then Othniel, the son of Kenaz, died.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon, the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_01: He gathered to himself the Amorites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel, and they took possession of the city of Palms, and the people of Israel served Eglon, the king of Moab, eighteen years.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_01: Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man, and the people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon, King of Moab.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_01: And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his clothes.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_01: And he presented the tribute to Eglon, King of Moab.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_01: Now Eglon was a very fat man, and when Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: But he himself turned back at the idols near Gilgal and said, I have a secret message for you, O king, and he commanded silence.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_01: And all his attendants went out from his presence, and Ehud came to him as he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber, and Ehud said, I have a message from God for you.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_01: And he arose from his seat, and Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly, and the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly, and the dung came out.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_01: Then Ehud went out into the porch and closed the doors of the roof chamber behind him and locked them.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_01: When he had gone the servants came, and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought surely he is relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber, and they waited till they were embarrassed.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_01: But when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them, and there lay their lord dead on the floor.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_01: Ehud escaped while they delayed, and he passed beyond the idols and escaped to Sirah.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_01: When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_01: Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was their leader, and he said to them, Follow after me, for the Lord has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_01: So they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and did not allow anyone to pass over.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_01: And they killed at that time about ten thousand of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men, not a man escaped.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel, and the land had rest for eighty years.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_01: After him was Shamgar, the son of Anath, who killed six hundred of the Philistines with an ox goad, and he also saved Israel.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: Proverbs fourteen verses nine through twelve.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy acceptance.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_01: The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: Judges chapter three points us back to God's promises declared in Judges chapter two.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_01: In Judges chapter two, we remember in verse three that God shares that the inhabitants of the land will be a thorn in the side of Israel.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_01: This is in regards to the people that Israel did not drive out, the people that were left remaining, those that Israel did not drive out, those who would be doing heavy labor for Israel, the ones that they did not drive out completely.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_01: And these people become a snare, they become a pain in the side of Israel as they intermingle and they mix with the surrounding nations, giving their away their sons, uh receiving daughters, and vice versa.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: And the people are blending and mixing and worshiping with these with these mixed marriages in and out of the people of Israel, and they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: Verse 7, they forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: The anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he and he sends them into the hands of the surrounding kings to be their slaves, to serve them.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_01: And God, as the title of this book indicates, raises up judges to save God's people when they fall, when they become defeated.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_01: And again, this is a kindness from God.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_01: He does, he's not required to do this, but he is a faithful God, a loving God, abounding in steadfast love.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: And these judges who are named in this chapter, Othniel, Ahud, and Shamgar, these individuals are people uh that would rescue and save uh Israel out of the hands of their enemies.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_01: Now, the judge that has given the most attention here and the most verses in this chapter is the judge named Ehud.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_01: And he is uh a lefty.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: Those who are are left-handed uh live in a world designed for right-hand dominant people.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_01: But in this case, um there's a a potential for this to become uh an advantage for Ehud as he he pulls a sneak attack on on King Eglon, and he's he's described as a very large man, a very fat man, and uh there's some some graphic details in this section, but nonetheless, uh Ehud is is uh he fashions a shorter sword and and conceals it on his right side, and this is this is not a uh a move, the the crossing of the arm across his body to um to brandish the sword catches Eglon off guard and he is able to to take him out and escape, and the the the people that would be serving Eglon are embarrassed, and I'm not sure if they should check in on him, and that this gives Ehud a chance to escape, and as as he goes, he returns and and rallies the troops and goes and leads them to kill 10,000 Moabites, and this is a great victory.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and after this event, Israel sees rest for 80 years.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: So as we continue in the book of Judges, we'll we'll see more and more of these of these heroes, these saviors that will rescue Israel from their own folly, from their own mistakes.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: And God is going to be showing himself faithful uh despite Israel's lack of faithfulness as they continue to disobey him and continue to uh do what is right in their own eyes.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: Now, looking over to our section in the Proverbs, we see verses 9 through 12 and Proverbs a chapter 14, and the beginning uh verse is a sad one, and it draws the attention of people that would uh mock someone's pursuit of admitting guilt and making sacrifices uh to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy acceptance, like to acceptance from God, acceptance to be um in right standing with him because of the sacrifices made because of your confession and your admission of your guilt, and and you're willing to do something uh about it in these times.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um, in the book of Moses, there's uh we see the the list of steps that you would take to make a guilt offering or to make a peace offering or a sin offering, and and this is what God's people in obedience would be doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: They would be making guilt offerings, but the fool mocks and scoffs at forgiveness, mocks and scoffs at uh a humble heart that would seek to be made right with with their creator.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: You know, the the fool says, I'm good right where I am, I don't need to ask for forgiveness.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not guilty because I have done no wrong.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: I am the king of my life, I am my own God, and and that is a sad reality that many people in this world, um, this is the headspace that they operate in.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: So um it is it is upright, those who are upright that enjoy acceptance, that enjoy um God's approval uh in his eyes.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: Going on to the next verse here in verse 10, the heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm thinking of some lyrics that go something like this Nobody knows the trouble I've seen, nobody knows my sorrow.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: And and this in a certain sense is is true.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: The heart knows its own bitterness, and that's something that is it's unique to each individual.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I can't know in full and complete detail your your sorrow, your bitterness, your deep emotions, and and you can't understand mine completely either.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_01: And and the the on the other side of the coin, it's the same.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: We we can't fully understand each other's excitement, each other's joy, and um that's something that we we don't share, whether it's on the side of bitterness or on the side of great joy and excitement.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: There's a complexity that God has made us with and a limited understanding that prevents us from fully and completely knowing each other's hearts, knowing each other's minds.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um but the comfort in all of this is that God does, God does know completely the full range of our emotions and the and the full spectrum of uh of our hurts, of our excitement and our and our joy.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: And that should be uh a reason to to thank him, a reason to call out to him, because he is truly the only one who knows, the only one who understands the house of the wicked and the tent of the upright.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: These are uh comparisons, a house being something that is taking more time and effort and money to construct, and a tent is more of a temporary thing that is picked up and packed away and reset up again.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_01: That's not something you can do with a home.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you might be able to remodel, you might be able to expand, but it's not something that you're gonna be able to pick up and move um right away.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: And it's it's much more costly to construct.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_01: The house of the wicked will be destroyed uh as grand as it may be, as as strong and um well built as it may be, the house of the wicked, uh the lineage, both their physical homes um and their their bloodlines will be cut off, will be destroyed as God will return one day uh to judge in um to judge in power, and that in contrast, the tent of the upright will flourish.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: Those who those who um love the Lord, those who are upright, those who walk in a level path, those are the people who will flourish who are seeking after God, and though they might not have the riches or uh the value of the homes of the house that the wicked have, it's it's they who will flourish.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_01: In our final verse in verse 12, we look to um a very classic, if you will, a common or popular proverb.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_01: There is a way that seems right to a man in verse 12, but its end is the way to death.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: And this proverb draws my mind to Matthew chapter seven and verse thirteen, which reads, Enter by the narrow gate, for the gate is wide, and the way is easy, that leads to destruction.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: And those who enter by it are many, for the gate is narrow, and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: Now, the way that would seem right in a in the eyes of man would be the way that that pleases them, that seems right to them, without the enlightenment uh and instruction of God through the scriptures, all all that man has to go about life with is his own mind, which is depraved and fallen um and wicked from birth, and its way, its end is death.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: And without without the the narrow gate, the narrow path that you pass into, there is no life.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: And that narrow gate uh is is Christ, is uh the Lord Jesus who offers life to anyone who would believe in his name.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_01: So if if you are someone who is on the narrow path, continue on, keep striving after Christ, keep following and pursuing him, keep calling out to him and waiting for his return, uh, for he will be uh back soon to um to collect his bride and judge the wicked.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I hope that was an encouragement to you today.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for joining me today on the Lamp and Light Bible Reading Podcast.
• 17:46
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• 17:52
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• 17:54
  SPEAKER_01: God's word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your pillar.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: Today is Monday, September seventh, twenty twenty six.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: Listen intently to God's written word, Judges three.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: Now these are the nations that the Lord left to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_01: It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_01: These are the nations, the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon from Mount Baal Hermon as far as Labo Hamath.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_01: They were for the testing of Israel to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_01: So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amrites, the Perizites, the Hivites, and the Jebisites, and their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_01: And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Ashroth.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Kushan Rishethim, king of Mesopotamia, and the people of Israel served Kushan Rishethim eight years.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_01: But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: Othniel, son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, the spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he judged Israel.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: He went out to war, and the Lord gave Keshan Rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, into his hand, and his hand prevailed over Keshan Rishathaim.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_01: So the land had rest for forty years.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: Then Othil, the son of Kenaz, died.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_01: And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_01: And the Lord strengthened Eglon, the king of Moab, against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_01: He gathered to himself the Amrites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel, and they took possession of the city of Palms.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_01: And the people of Israel served Eglon, the king of Moab, eighteen years.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_01: Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man, and the people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon, king of Moab.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his clothes, and he presented the tribute to Eglon, king of Moab.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: Now Eglon was a very fat man, and when Ehud had finished pre presenting the trip tribute, he went away.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_01: He sent away the people who carry the tribute, but he himself turned back at the idols near Gilgal and said, I have sent I have a secret message for you, O king, and he commanded silence.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_01: And all his attendants went out from his presence, and Ehud came to him as he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber, and Ehud said, I have a message from God for you.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_01: And he arose from his seat, and Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_01: And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he didn't for he did not pull the sword out of his belly, and the dung came out.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_01: Then Ehud went out into the porch and closed the doors of the roof chamber behind him and locked them.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: When he had gone the servants came, and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, surely he is relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber, and they waited till they were embarrassed.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: But then but when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them, and there lay their lord dead on the floor.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_01: Ehud escaped while they delayed, and he passed beyond the idols and escaped to Sira.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_00: When he arrived he surrounded he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_01: Then the people of Israel.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_01: Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was their leader.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_01: And he said to them, Follow after me, for the Lord has given your enemies, the Moabites, into your hand.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_01: So they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and did not allow anyone to pass over.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_01: And they killed at that time about ten thousand of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men, not a man escaped.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_01: So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel, and the land had rest for eighty years.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: After him was Shamgar, the son of Anath, who killed six hundred of the Philistines with an ox goad, and he also saved Israel.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_01: Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy acceptance.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_01: The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_01: The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_01: There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: And these are the people that God did uh.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_01: And these people become a snare, they become a pain in the side of Israel as they intermingle and they mix with the surrounding nations, giving their away their sons, uh receiving daughters, and vice versa.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_01: And the people are blending and mixing and worshiping with these um with these mixed marriages in and out of the the people of Israel, and God is not happy with this.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_01: He is He is not pleased.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_01: They did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_01: Verse 7, they forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_01: The next verse says, The anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he he sends them um into the hands of the surrounding kings to be their slaves, to serve them.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and God, as as the title of this book indicates, raises up judges to save God's people when they fall, when they become defeated.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_01: And again, this is a kindness from God.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_01: He does he's not required to do this, but he is a faithful God, a loving God, abounding in steadfast love.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_01: And these judges who are named in this chapter, Othniel, Ahud, and Shamgar, these individuals are people uh that would rescue and save uh Israel out of the hands of their enemies.