Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to possess.
And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
The Lord your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the Lord has spoken.
But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.
After these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being 110 years old.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.
Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.
A long time afterward, when the Lord had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years, Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, “I am now old and well advanced in years.
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