The people served the LORD all the days of Yehoshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Yehoshua, who had seen all the great work of the LORD that he had worked for Yisra'el.
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Yisra'el served the LORD all the days of Yehoshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Yehoshua, and had known all the work of the LORD, that he had worked for Yisra'el.
Yet they didn't listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the mitzvot of the LORD; [but] they didn't do so.