Judges 2:6-10

Joshua’s Death and Burial

6 After Joshua had dismissed the people, the Israelites went out to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance. ¹

7 And the people served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had seen all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel.

8 And Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.

9 They buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-heres ^[a] in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

Israel’s Unfaithfulness

10 After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel. ²

Judges 2:6-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 2

This chapter gives an account of an angel of the Lord appearing and rebuking the children of Israel for their present misconduct, Jud 2:1-5; of their good behaviour under Joshua, and the elders that outlived him, Jud 2:6-10; and of their idolatries they fell into afterwards, which greatly provoked the Lord to anger, Jud 2:11-15; and of the goodness of God to them nevertheless, in raising up judges to deliver them out of the hands of their enemies, of which there are many instances in the following chapter, Jud 2:16-18; and yet that how, upon the demise of such persons, they relapsed into idolatry which caused the anger of God to be hot against them, and to determine not to drive out the Canaanites utterly from them, but to leave them among them to try them, Jud 2:19-23.

Cross References

• 1. (Joshua 24:29–33)
• 2. (Isaiah 43:22–28; Jeremiah 2:23–37)

Footnotes

• [a] Timnath-heres is also known as Timnath-serah; see Joshua 19:50 and Joshua 24:30.