⁶Previously, when Joshua had sent the people away, the Israelites had gone to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance.^q ⁷The people worshiped the Lord throughout Joshua’s lifetime and during the lifetimes of the elders who outlived Joshua. They had seen all the Lord’s great works^r he had done for Israel.

⁸Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of 110. ⁹They buried him in the territory of his inheritance, in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim,^s north of Mount Gaash. ¹⁰That whole generation was also gathered to their ancestors. After them another generation rose up who did not know the Lord^t or the works he had done for Israel.

¹¹The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.^u They worshiped the Baals^v ¹²and abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed other gods from the surrounding peoples^w and bowed down to them. They angered the Lord,^x ¹³for they abandoned him and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths.^y

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Cross references

q Dt 9:4; 11:31; Jos 1:11; 18:3; Jdg 18:9; Neh 9:15
r Dt 11:7
s Jos 19:50; 1Sm 1:1; 14:22; 1Ch 6:67
t Ex 5:2; 1Sm 2:12
u Nm 32:12; Dt 4:25; 31:29; 1Kg 11:6
v Jdg 3:7; 8:33; 1Sm 12:10; 2Kg 17:16; Jr 2:23; 9:14
w Dt 6:14; 13:7
x 1Kg 14:15; 15:30; 2Kg 17:11; 2Ch 28:25
y Jdg 10:6; 1Sm 7:3–4; 12:10; 1Kg 11:5,33; 2Kg 23:13