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27 And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be aa witness to us, for bit has heard all the words of the Lord which He spoke to us. It shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God.”  
28 So aJoshua let the people depart, each to his own inheritance.  

Death of Joshua and Eleazar

29 aNow it came to pass after these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old.  
30 And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at aTimnath Serah, which is in the mountains of Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash.  
31 aIsrael served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had bknown all the works of the Lord which He had done for Israel.  
32 aThe bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in the plot of ground bwhich Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of silver, and which had become an inheritance of the children of Joseph.  
33 And aEleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in a hill belonging to bPhinehas his son, which was given to him in the mountains of Ephraim. 
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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Joshua 24:29.

Joshua 24:29-31

Let us begin in Joshua the twenty-fourth chapter, and just see a little bit of this. We are going to be reading verses 29 through 31. This is the end of that period. But I want you to see what the Bible says about them and Joshua.

So the Bible actually says nice things about this generation under the leadership of Joshua. They were pretty good. They served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the next generation, and then their children started to basically fall apart and descended in what we see in the Judges. But this generation that the Bible is talking about was not too bad.

In two consecutive books, God inspired these writers to actually pump up this generation, give them good marks because it says they served the Lord. We know they did not do perfectly; they did not complete things totally. But maybe four stars, right? They did most of what God wanted them to do, and He was satisfied with them.

Excerpted from Joshua's Four Miracles (Part One)

Joshua 24:29-31

He was a very, very faithful servant of God. Also, we will go to chapter 24 of Joshua and pick up a little bit about Joshua and this generation that was with him.

So both Joshua and that generation are given very high marks for their faithfulness and their completion of the things that God had given them to do. Now we do know that they did not finish everything. They did not do it perfectly. And that is what you would expect from a human people. But they did enough that God was fairly pleased—pleased enough to commend them for what they had done.

Excerpted from Joshua's Four Miracles (Part Two)

 
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