⁶Now, Joshua sent the people of Israel home. So each family went to take possession of the territory they had inherited. ⁷The people served the Lord throughout Joshua’s lifetime and throughout the lifetimes of the leaders who had outlived him and who had seen all the spectacular works the Lord had done for Israel. ⁸The Lord’s servant Joshua, son of Nun, died at the age of 110. ⁹He was buried at Timnath Heres within the territory he had inherited. This was in the mountains of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash. ¹⁰That whole generation had joined their ancestors in death. So another generation grew up after them. They had no personal experience with the Lord or with what he had done for Israel.

The Sin of the Next Generation

¹¹The people of Israel did what the Lord considered evil. They began to serve other gods—the Baals. ¹²The Israelites abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors, the God who brought them out of Egypt. They followed the other gods of the people around them. They worshiped these gods, and that made the Lord angry. ¹³They abandoned the Lord to serve the god Baal and the goddess Astarte.

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