⁷The people served the Lord as long as Joshua lived. They also served him as long as the elders lived. Those were the elders who lived longer than Joshua did. They had seen all of the great things the Lord had done for Israel.

⁸Joshua, the servant of the Lord, died. He was the son of Nun. He was 110 years old when he died. ⁹His people buried his body on his own property at Timnath Heres. It’s north of Mount Gaash in the hill country of Ephraim.

¹⁰All of the people of Joshua’s time joined the members of their families who had already died. Then those who were born after them grew up. They didn’t know the Lord. They didn’t know what he had done for Israel.

¹¹The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They served the gods that were named after Baal. ¹²They deserted the Lord, the God of their people. He had brought them out of Egypt. But now the people of Israel followed other gods and worshiped them. They served the gods of the nations that were around them. They made the Lord angry ¹³because they deserted him. They served Baal. They also served the goddesses that were named after Ashtoreth.

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