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When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land.
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And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work which the LORD had done for Israel.
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And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of one hundred and ten years.
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And they buried him within the bounds of his inheritance in Tim'nath-he'res, in the hill country of E'phraim, north of the mountain of Ga'ash.
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And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, who did not know the LORD or the work which he had done for Israel.
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And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Ba'als;
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and they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; they went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed down to them; and they provoked the LORD to anger.
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They forsook the LORD, and served the Ba'als and the Ash'taroth.
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So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them; and he sold them into the power of their enemies round about, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
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Whenever they marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had warned, and as the LORD had sworn to them; and they were in sore straits.
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Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the power of those who plundered them.