^{6 Ref} And Joshua let the people go away, and the children of Israel went, every man to his heritage, to take the land for themselves.

^{7 Ref} And the people were true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the responsible men who were still living after the death of Joshua, and had seen all the great work of the Lord which he had done for Israel.

^{8 Ref} And death came to Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, he being a hundred and ten years old.

^{9 Ref} And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim to the north of Mount Gaash.

^{10 Ref} And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.

^{11 Ref} And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;

^{12 Ref} And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath.

^{13 Ref} And they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes.

^{14 Ref} And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them.