Picture the setting, as described in the Bible: “It came about many days after Jehovah had given Israel rest from all their enemies all around, when Joshua was old and advanced in days, that Joshua proceeded to call all Israel, its older men and its heads and its judges and its officers, and to say to them: ‘ As for me, I have grown old, I have advanced in days. ’ ” ​ — Joshua 23: 1, 2.
Bayangkan situasinya, sebagaimana digambarkan dalam Alkitab: ” Lama setelah Yehuwa memberi orang Israel istirahat dari peperangan dengan semua musuh di sekeliling mereka, pada waktu Yosua sudah tua dan lanjut usia, Yosua memanggil seluruh bangsa Israel, para tua - tuanya, para kepalanya, para hakimnya, dan para pemimpinnya, dan mengatakan kepada mereka, ’ Aku, sekarang aku sudah tua, aku sudah lanjut usia. ’ ” ​ — Yosua 23: 1, 2.