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Conquest and judges

Joshua's farewell and death

1443 BCApproximate date

Joshua 23–24; Judges 2:6–10

Joshua gathered Israel at Shechem, renewed the covenant, and challenged them to choose whom they would serve; he died at 110.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.

Joshua 24:15 (World English Bible)

Joshua reviewed God's faithfulness from Abraham to the conquest and called Israel to throw away their idols. His challenge is one of the best-known lines in the Old Testament. The people promised to serve Yahweh, and Israel did so all Joshua's days and those of the elders who outlived him.

Joseph's bones, carried out of Egypt, were finally buried at Shechem.

Places

ShechemGaashTimnath-heresGibeah

Dating notes

Joshua was 110 (Joshua 24:29). Ussher's Annals mention Joshua's settling at Timnath-serah and his death at 110 under 1443 BC, which later summaries read as his death date; the text is not explicit, and Joshua 23:1 says “a long time” after the land had rest. Treat as approximate.

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