After Joshua had dismissed the people, the Israelites went out to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance. And the people served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had seen all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel. And Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110. They buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.
Significance
The Judges 2:6-9 prologue recounts how the people served the LORD during Joshua's lifetime and during the lifetime of the elders "who had seen all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel" (אֲשֶׁר רָאוּ אֵת כָּל־מַעֲשֵׂה יְהוָה הַגָּדוֹל). This echoes Moses' exhortation in Deuteronomy 11:7, "it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done," where firsthand experience of divine power grounds covenantal obligation. The Judges narrator shows that Moses' strategy of grounding faithfulness in eyewitness memory worked for exactly one generation, then failed catastrophically, demonstrating the insufficiency of external experience without internal heart transformation.
Found via
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (Judges 2:7) — cross-references Deuteronomy 11:7 at "all the great work of the LORD"
Reference Type
Echo
Connection Method(s)
Redemptive-Historical Progression — the Judges 2:6-9 prologue records the next stage of the story Deuteronomy 11:7 anticipated: Moses grounded obedience in what "your own eyes... have seen," and the narrator shows that ground holding for precisely one generation before failing, advancing the covenant narrative to its demonstrated need for heart-transformation beyond eyewitness memory.
