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Joshua 24:29

in Joshua 24

Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, being a hundred and ten years old.

KJV

And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

This verse in Joshua 24

Commentary

7 notes on this verse
And it came to pass, after these things,.... Some little time after, very probably the same year: that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being an hundred and ten years old; he wanted ten years of Moses his predecessor, Deu 34:7, and just the age of Joseph, Gen 50:22, from whom he sprung, being of the tribe of Ephraim, Num 13:8.

This site's exposition

Then Joshua sent the people away

on Joshua 24:28-30

Judges 2:6-9 repeats these verses almost word for word as the next book takes up the thread. Every earlier servant of the LORD, from Deuteronomy 34:5 through Joshua 22:5, is Moses, and the title comes to Joshua here and at Judges 2:8. He dies at 110, Joseph's age at Genesis 50:26, the only two men given it, and lies in Timnath-serah, which he asked for at 19:50.

This site's exposition

Joshua son of Nun, the servant

Exodus 33:11 calls Joshua son of Nun Moses' young assistant, who would not leave the tent. Numbers 14:30 spared him and Caleb alone of the men sentenced to die in the wilderness. Both lived to hold land in Canaan.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Against Jovinianus 1.22 · Written before 420.

proposed

But it is now time for us to raise the standard of Joshua's chastity. It is written that Moses had a wife. … We read that Moses, that is, the law, had a wife; show me then in the same way that Joshua the son of Nun had either wife or children, and if you can do so, I will confess that I am beaten.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

1 ) when mention was made of his death; for, though Joshua was in many respects inferior to Moses, yet in this he was equal to him, that, according as his work was, he approved himself a diligent and faithful servant of God. And he that traded with his two talents had the same approbation that he had who traded with his five. Well done, good and faithful servant.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Joshua . . . died--LIGHTFOOT computes that he lived seventeen, others twenty-seven years, after the entrance into Canaan. He was buried, according to the Jewish practice, within the limits of his own inheritance.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Joshua the son of Nun - died - This event probably took place shortly after this public assembly; for he was old and stricken in years when he held the assembly mentioned Jos 23:2; and as his work was now all done, and his soul ripened for a state of blessedness, God took him to himself, being one hundred and ten years of age; exactly the same age as that of the patriarch Joseph. See Gen 50:26.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֗יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • אַֽחֲרֵי֙after

    ʾachareiH310 →715 times

  • הַדְּבָרִ֣יםthe things

    hadevarimH1697 →1440 times

  • הָאֵ֔לֶּה<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 times

  • וַיָּ֛מָתand he died

    vaiyamotH4191 →839 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֥עַJoshua

    yehoshua'H3091 →218 times

  • בִּן־[the] son of

    bin-H1121 →4930 times

  • נ֖וּןNun

    nunH5126 →30 times

  • עֶ֣בֶד[the] servant of

    ʾevedH5650 →799 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • בֶּן־a son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • מֵאָ֥הone hundred

    meahH3967 →581 times

  • וָעֶ֖שֶׂרand ten

    vaeserH6235 →176 times

  • שָׁנִֽים׃years

    shanimH8141 →877 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 34:5

    So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, as the LORD had said.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 32:50

      And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.

    • Joshua 1:1–2

      Now after the death of His servant Moses, the LORD spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying,

    • Hebrews 3:3–6

      For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

    • Revelation 15:3

      and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

    • 2 Peter 1:1

      Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:

  • Through

    Genesis 50:26

    So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 47:9

      “My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

    • Genesis 50:22

      Now Joseph and his father’s household remained in Egypt, and Joseph lived to the age of 110.

    • Genesis 50:2–3

      And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,

Where this verse is studied

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About Joshua

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Against Jovinianus 1.22; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.