Joshua Dies

^6 (A)When Joshua had dismissed the people, the sons of Israel went, each one to his inheritance, to take possession of the land. ⁷ The people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who ^[a]survived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the Lord which He had done for Israel. ⁸ Then Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of 110. ⁹ And they buried him in the territory of ^(B)his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. ¹⁰ All that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and another generation rose up after them who ^(C)did not know the Lord, nor even the work which He had done for Israel.

Israel Serves the Baals

¹¹ Then the sons of Israel did ^(D)evil in the sight of the Lord and ^[b]served the ^(E)Baals, ¹² and ^(F)they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed other gods from the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them; so they provoked the Lord to anger.

^6 (A)These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. ⁷ And ^(B)you shall repeat them diligently to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. ^8 (C)You shall also tie them as a ^[a]sign to your ^[b]hand, and they shall be as ^[c]frontlets ^[d]on your forehead. ^9 (D)You shall also write them on the ^[e]doorposts of your house and on your gates.