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.
وقایع آن زمان را در ذهن خود مجسم کنید .‏ در کتاب مقدّس می‌خوانیم :‏ ‹ واقع شد بعد از روزهای بسیار چون یَهُوَه اسرائیل را از جمیع دشمنان ایشان از هر طرف آرامی داده بود ،‏ و یوشَع پیر و سالخورده شده بود .‏