Joshua 24:31 (GNV)

Passage

And Israel serued the Lord all the daies of Ioshua, and all the daies of the Elders that ouerliued Ioshua, and which had knowen all the workes of the Lord that he had done for Israel.

Nearby Context

Joshua 24:29 And after these things Ioshua the sonne of Nun, the seruaunt of the Lord died, being an hundreth and ten yeeres olde.

Joshua 24:30 And they buried him in ye border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the Northside of mount Gaash.

Joshua 24:31 And Israel serued the Lord all the daies of Ioshua, and all the daies of the Elders that ouerliued Ioshua, and which had knowen all the workes of the Lord that he had done for Israel.

Joshua 24:32 And the bones of Ioseph, which the children of Israel brought out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem in a parcell of ground which Iaakob bought of the sonnes of Hamor the father of Shechem, for an hundreth pieces of siluer, and the children of Ioseph had them in their inheritance.

Joshua 24:33 Also Eleazar the sonne of Aaron died, whome they buried in the hill of Phinehas his sonne, which was giuen him in mount Ephraim.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "israel", "serued", "lord", "daies", "ioshua", "elders", and "ouerliued". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "israel" and "serued", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 30's "And they buried him in ye border..." into verse 32's "And the bones of Ioseph which the...", so "israel" and "serued" belong inside that flow. In Joshua context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "israel" and "serued" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.