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When Y'hoshua had sent the people away, the people of Isra'el had gone each one to his assigned property in order to take possession of the land.
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The people served ADONAI throughout Y'hoshua's life and throughout the lives of all the older men who outlived Y'hoshua and who had seen all the great work of ADONAI which he had done for Isra'el.
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When Y'hoshua the son of Nun, the servant of ADONAI, died, he was 110 years old;
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and they buried him near the boundary of his property in Timnat-Heres, in the hills of Efrayim, north of Mount Ga'ash.
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When that entire generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation arose that knew neither ADONAI nor the work he had done for Isra'el.
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Then the people of Isra'el did what was evil from ADONAI's perspective and served the ba'alim.
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They abandoned ADONAI, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, selected from the gods of the peoples around them, and worshipped them; this made ADONAI angry.
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They abandoned ADONAI and served Ba'al and the 'ashtarot.
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The anger of ADONAI blazed against Isra'el; and he handed them over to pillagers, who plundered them, and to their enemies around them; so that they could no longer resist their enemies.
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Whenever they launched an attack, the power of ADONAI was against them, so that things turned out badly - just as ADONAI had said would happen and had sworn to them. They were in dire distress.
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But then ADONAI raised up judges, who rescued them from the power of those who were plundering them.