Joshua
son of Nun
Ephraimite servant of Moses who spied out Canaan and afterwards led Israel across the Jordan in the conquest and division of the land.
Also called Oshea, Jehoshua.
41 passages · part 6 of 6
Joshua Dismisses the People, Dies, Is Buried
6And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
Joshua had sent the people on their way. Each family went to take the land God gave them.
7And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.
The people served the LORD all through Joshua's life. They kept serving him while the older leaders were still alive. Those leaders had seen the great things the LORD did for Israel.
8And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died. He was 110 years old.
9And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
They buried him on his own land at Timnath-heres. That place is in the hill country of Ephraim. It is north of Mount Gaash.
10And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
That whole group of people died, just as their fathers had. A new group grew up after them. They did not know the LORD. They did not know what he had done for Israel.
Every passage here is the King James text. Nothing on this page retells the story; it only puts the pieces in order.