Joshua died. Then the people of Israel prayed to the Lord. They said, “Which of our family groups should be the first to go and fight for us against the Canaanite people?”
The people of Israel served the Lord as long as Joshua was alive. They continued serving the Lord during the lifetimes of the elders (leaders) that lived after Joshua had died. These old men had seen all the great things the Lord had done for the people of Israel.
The people of Israel buried Joshua. They buried Joshua on the land that he had been given. That was at Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.