Judges 2:6-10

Joshua Dies

6 And Joshua sent the people away, and the {Israelites} went each to their own inheritance to take possession of the land.

7 And the people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who saw all the great work Yahweh had done for Israel.

8 And Joshua son of Nun, servant of Yahweh, died {at the age of one hundred and ten years}.

9 They buried him within the border of his inheritance in Timnah-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.

10 Moreover, that entire generation was gathered to their ancestors, and another generation grew up after them who did not know Yahweh or the work he had done for Israel.

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.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "sons/children of Israel"
• [b]. Hebrew "his"
• [c]. Literally "a son of one hundred and ten years"
• [d]. Hebrew "his"
• [e]. Or "fathers"
• [f]. Judges 2:6-10 is repeated in Joshua 24:28-31