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What does Joshua 24:29 mean?
"After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old."
— Joshua 24:29 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.
Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all Yahweh’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”
So Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.
After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.
They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Explanation
Joshua 24:29 records a simple but weighty fact: the death of Joshua at the age of one hundred and ten. In plain language, the verse marks the end of Joshua's life, coming immediately after he had gathered all Israel at Shechem, renewed the covenant between the people and God, and urged them to remain faithful to Yahweh alone. The phrase "after these things" ties his death directly to that final covenant renewal, showing that Joshua's last recorded act was calling the nation to faithfulness before he passed from the scene.
The book of Joshua narrates Israel's conquest and settlement of the promised land under Joshua's leadership, following the death of Moses. Joshua had been Moses' assistant and was commissioned by God to lead Israel into Canaan. Tradition holds that much of the book was compiled from records associated with Joshua and later editors, written for the community of Israel to remember how God fulfilled his promises to give them the land. This verse, along with the surrounding passages (Joshua 24:29-33), functions as a kind of epilogue, closing out the era of conquest and leadership under Joshua, much as Deuteronomy 34 closed out the era of Moses.
Theologically, the title given to Joshua—"the servant of Yahweh"—is significant. This same title had been used of Moses (Deuteronomy 34:5), and giving it to Joshua signals that he stood in that same honored line of faithful leadership. His long life of one hundred and ten years reflects a life fully lived in service to God's purposes, from the exod
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