7 The people of Israel served the Lord as long as Joshua was alive. They continued serving the Lord during the lifetimes of the elders who lived on after Joshua. These men had seen all the great things the Lord had done for Israel.
8 Joshua son of Nun was the servant of the Lord. Joshua died at the age of 110.
9 So the Israelites buried him in the land he had been given. That land was at Timnath Heres. It was in the mountains of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
10 After those people had died, their children grew up. They did not know the Lord or what he had done for Israel.
11 So they did evil and worshiped the Baal idols. They did what the Lord said was wrong.
12 The Lord had brought the people of Israel out of Egypt. And the ancestors of these people had worshiped the Lord. But the Israelites quit following the Lord. They began to worship the gods of the people who lived around them. That made the Lord angry.
13 The Israelites quit following the Lord and worshiped Baal and Ashtoreth.