1. Now a long time passed, after the Lord had given peace to Israel by subjecting all the surrounding nations. And Joshua was now old and very advanced in age.
2. Joshua called all of Israel, and those greater by birth, and the leaders and rulers and teachers, and he said to them: "I am elderly and advanced in age.
3. And you yourselves discern all that the Lord your God has done with all the surrounding nations, in what manner he himself has fought for you.