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August 19, 2026 - Joshua 11 & Proverbs 11:29-31 · 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 Josiah Smith, Leaf Pastor of Compass South Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Wednesday, August 19th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen intently to God's written word, Joshua 11.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Jabed, King of Hazar, heard of this, he sent to Jabba, king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Akshof, and to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Erabah, south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Napador on the west, to the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizbah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots, and all these kings joined their forces and came and encamped together at the waters of Moram to fight against Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord said to Joshua, Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them slain to Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with a fire.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Joshua and all his warriors came suddenly against them by the waters of Moram, and fell upon them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them, and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misraphat, Maim, and eastward as far as the valley of Mispa, and they struck them until he left none remaining.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Joshua did to them just as the Lord said to him, he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Joshua turned back at that time and captured Hazor, and struck its king with the sword, for Hazor firmly was the head of all those kingdoms, and they struck with the sword all who were in it, devoting them to destruction.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was none left that breathed, and he burned Hazor with fire, and all the cities of those kings and all their kings, Joshua captured, and struck them with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction, just as Moses, the servant of the Lord had commanded.
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  SPEAKER_00: But none of the cities that stood on mounds did Israel burn, except Hazor alone, that Joshua burned, and all the spoil of these cities in the livestock the people of Israel took for their plunder.
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  SPEAKER_00: But every person they struck with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any who breathed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just as the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did.
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  SPEAKER_00: He left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland and the Eraba, and the hill country of Israel, and its lowland, from Mount Halak, which rises towards Sair, as far as Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon, and he captured all their kings and struck them and put them to death.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was not a city that made peace with the people of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon.
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  SPEAKER_00: They took them all in battle, for it was the Lord's doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction, and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, just as the Lord commanded Moses.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from the Dabir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel, Joshua devoted them to destruction with their cities.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel, only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdah did some remain.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel, according to the tribal allotments, and the land had rest from war.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs eleven, twenty-nine through thirty-one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise.
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  SPEAKER_00: If the righteous is repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now here in Joshua 11 we continue to see the quickening pace of the victories that Joshua and Israel are securing over their enemies.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in chapter 10, we had kings banding together, the king of Jerusalem kind of leading the charge, and ultimately they fall.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here in chapter 11, we have more kings banding together, and of course, ultimately they fall as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, what's interesting here is in verse four, it says, They came out with all their troops, these nations that banded together, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, that language is interesting because uh hopefully it sounds familiar to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's actually covenant language that's baked into the Abrahamic covenant.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you can think back to Genesis, specifically Genesis 12, 15, and 17, where God made a covenant with Abraham, that of course has been reiterated uh a number of times already.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what does he say?
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  SPEAKER_00: He promises three things: land, seed, and blessing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, seed, think of that as offspring, and he promises Abraham that his offspring would number essentially the sand of the seashore.
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  SPEAKER_00: They would be as great as the sand of the seashore.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I think it's intentional here that in Joshua 11, we see that language reiterated.
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  SPEAKER_00: But instead of it being the descendants of Abraham that will number a great number, like the sand of the seashore, it's their enemies that number a great number.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, in a sense, it's like the enemies of God are in this instance in chapter 11, threatening, or at least from our perspective, uh kind of a literary device going on here, threatening the promise that God made to have descendants come from Abraham that would number the sand of the seashore.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we have this kind of face-off, this face down, I guess if you will, in verse four, where their enemies are so great.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet, what do we see?
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  SPEAKER_00: We see God say to Joshua, do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them slain to Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So even though the kings and the foreign nations here are banding together to seek to destroy the people of God, even though, from our perspective, even from a literary perspective, we're thinking about the covenant language of the number of offspring being as many as the sand of the seashore, uh, that being under attack because of how great this assembled army is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nevertheless, God is true to his promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: He continues to preserve his people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we see here him reiterate to Joshua, don't worry about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't be afraid.
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  SPEAKER_00: For tomorrow at this time, the victory will be yours.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, we see as the chapter unfolds, that's exactly what happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have a decisive, swift victory because God keeps his promises.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, as we look to Proverbs 11, verses 29, 30, and 31 today, we have some uh some interesting Proverbs starting in verse 29.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: So whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a sense in which the wind is a bit chaotic.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we don't really know where it comes comes from.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a sense in which, uh, of course, we can feel its effects, uh, but we can't control it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's the whole idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever troubles his own house will inherit the wind.
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  SPEAKER_00: The effects of the wind that blows here and there, something that can't be controlled, something that can't be harnessed, uh, because this is what you have created through your own actions, through your own even wickedness or foolishness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever troubles his own household will inherit chaos, will inherit this whole idea of even uh destructive um patterns and uncontrollable uh things happening under their own roof because of their actions.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even says the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the reality of those who give themselves over to foolishness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, verse 30 is interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says, the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, captures souls essentially just means those who are seeking to get people on the path, on the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember, even what we talked about on Sunday, direct your heart in the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: So to capture a soul within the context of Proverbs is to essentially go out and seek to bring people on the path, the path of the way, and to help direct their hearts in the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that's what's being said here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever captures souls is wise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who are seeking to encourage others in their walk in with Christ encourage others as they seek to pursue righteousness, encourage others as they seek to grow in wisdom that's rooted in the fear of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever captures souls is wise.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then, of course, here in verse 31, if the righteous is repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner?
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  SPEAKER_00: So the Proverbs have just been so, so rich.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, we're trying to take it just little pieces at a time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh but there's just so much here for us to reflect on, such great application.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I would just again challenge you, as I already have, but want to just remind you to think through your life, the nitty-gritty circumstances of your life, to think through what's going on in your heart, and to seek to apply God's word and God's wisdom to those specific circumstances or those contexts and the situations that you find yourself in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go to the Proverbs, meditate on them, pray through them, recognize, as it says in verse 30, the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And whoever captures souls is wise.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a wise thing to try to encourage others in their walk with Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a wise thing to try to encourage others towards greater righteousness, towards greater fruitfulness in the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's really kind of a big aim and desire for this podcast as a whole, is that we want to do this.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to capture souls, if you will, because that's a wise thing to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a good thing to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we hope that this resource, this podcast, though we don't have time to go too in-depth with what we're reading, just some of the thoughts and even some of the time that we get to spend together thinking and reflecting on God's word, we hope it leads to greater righteousness, a greater conformity to Christ, a greater love for the Lord, and a deepened fear of Him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because whoever captures souls is wise, and the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Lamp and Light Bob 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 path.