And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
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Gill's Exposition
And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers,.... Were dead and buried, that is, the greatest part of those that were contemporaries with the elders that outlived Joshua; for they…
Barnes' Notes
All that generation - i. e. the main body of those who were grown-up men at the time of the conquest of Canaan.
The beginning of this paragraph is only a repetition of what account we had before of the people's good character during the government of Joshua, and of his death and burial (Jos 24:29, Jos 24:30),…
Cambridge Bible
were gathered unto their fathers This expression (as here only in 2Ki 22:20 = 2Ch 34:28), and the commoner -was gathered unto his people" (P), referred originally to the family sepulchre; then to the…
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