1. Judges 2:7 (ESV)
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Why did the elders outlive Joshua?

Judges 2:7 (ESV)

7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the LORD had done for Israel.

They were all much younger than he. His and Caleb’s contemporaries had all died in the desert (Numbers 14:29–30).

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