With the death of Joshua and the other older men, however, there began a 300 - year period of vacillation between true worship and false, leading up to the days of Samuel the prophet.
نَعَمْ ،‏ أَثَّرَ صَمُوئِيلُ فِي مُعَاصِرِيهِ لِيَتَجَنَّبُوا ٱلْخَطَأَ أَوْ يَتَوَقَّفُوا عَنْ مُمَارَسَتِهِ .‏