Today's reading completes Joshua and begins Judges. Joshua and Eleazar have been the leaders during the most recent time of conquest. They both die and are buried. At approximately the same time, the bones of Joseph are buried at Shechem.
The next portion of the reading tells of the capturing of various areas. The reading is completed by detailing the failure of each of the tribes in not driving out the Canaanites as they had been directed by God. The angel of the Lord came to deliver the reminder of the consequences of their failure. ". . .you have disobeyed me. Why have you done this? Now therefore I tell you that I will not drive them out before you; they will be thorns in your sides and their gods will be a snare to you." It then says that they wept and offered sacrifices. But they do not go route out the Canaanites, even now.
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