Joshua 24:31-33

31 ¹Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua ²and had known all the work that the LORD did for Israel.

32 ³As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land ⁴that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money.^[a] It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.

33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of ⁵Phinehas his son, which had been given him in ⁶the hill country of Ephraim.

Joshua 24:31-33 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 24

This chapter gives us an account of another summons of the tribes of Israel by Joshua, who obeyed it, and presented themselves before the Lord at Shechem, Jos 24:1; when Joshua in the name of the Lord rehearsed to them the many great and good things the Lord had done for them, from the time of their ancestor Abraham to that day, Jos 24:2-13; and then exhorted them to fear and serve the Lord, and reject idols, Jos 24:14; and put them upon making their choice, whether they would serve the true God, or the gods of the Canaanites; and they choosing the former, he advised them to abide by their choice, Jos 24:15-24; and made a covenant with them to that purpose, and then dismissed them, Jos 24:25-28; and the chapter is concluded with an account of the death and burial of Joshua and Eleazar, and of the interment of the bones of Joseph, Jos 24:29-33.

Cross References

• 1. Judges 2:7
• 2. Deuteronomy 11:2; Deuteronomy 31:13
• 3. Genesis 50:25; Exodus 13:19
• 4. Genesis 33:19
• 5. Joshua 22:13
• 6. ver. 30; Joshua 17:15

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew for a hundred qesitah; a unit of money of unknown value