Joshua 24:29-33·~1 min

Joshua’s Death and Burial

Joshua dies at one hundred ten and is buried in his own inheritance. Israel serves the Lord throughout his days and through the elders who outlive him and remember the Lord's works.

S²⁹ome time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110. ³⁰And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. ³¹Israel had served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced all the works that the LORD had done for Israel.

Joseph's bones are buried at Shechem in the plot Jacob bought, and Eleazar also dies and is buried in the hill country of Ephraim. The chapter ends with these bodies laid within the land that had long been promised.

³²And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants. ³³Eleazar son of Aaron also died, and they buried him at Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.

Section summaryThe chapter ends by recording the deaths and burials of Joshua and Eleazar, and by noting that Israel serves the Lord through Joshua's lifetime and beyond it for a time. Joseph's bones are also buried at Shechem, giving the close of Joshua a quiet sense of promises brought to rest in the land.

Role in the chapterThis closing section marks the passing of the generation that led Israel into the land. It ties covenant renewal to memory, inheritance, and mortality, while briefly noting continued faithfulness after Joshua.