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Joshua 24:32 Explained in Context
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Verse 32. 32And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
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Quick Meaning
Joshua 24:32 contributes this concrete line to the movement: “And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in…”.
Read It With
- Joshua 24:29–33
Read Joshua 24:32 with 24:29–33. Joshua 24:32 advances “Joshua, Joseph, and Eleazar Are Buried” with the textual step “And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in…”. The complete unit establishes this movement: Joshua dies as the LORD's servant at 110 and is buried in his inheritance; Israel serves through the elders who knew the LORD's works; Joseph's bones are buried at Shechem; Eleazar dies and is buried in Ephraim.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Joshua 24:25-28 ends with this movement: Warning and dismissal close the Shechem assembly. Joshua 24:29-33 begins with this next step: Joshua's death and burial close his leadership. It reaches this outcome: Joseph's bones and Eleazar's burial join exodus promise, priesthood, and land. This movement materially develops the book's concern with death, burial, Joseph's bones, Eleazar, generational memory, textual pluses, and non-heroic continuity. At Joshua 24:32, this verse contributes the following distinct step: Joshua 24:32 advances “Joshua, Joseph, and Eleazar Are Buried” with the textual step “And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in…”.
Read Joshua 24:29–33 together
Why these verses belong together: Joshua, Joseph's bones, and Eleazar close leadership, exodus promise, priesthood, land, and generation together.
Verse 29. 29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
Verse 30. 30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
Verse 31. 31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Verse 32. 32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Verse 33. 33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.
What Remains True
Joshua 24:32 contributes this bounded enduring truth: Communal memory should preserve truthful testimony, invite the next generation's questions, and resist turning objects or heroic leaders into magic.
How It Can Shape Life
- Joshua 24:32 calls readers to this response: Create honest, question-friendly practices of remembrance that include affected people and disclose uncertainty rather than manufacturing relics or legends. In Joshua 24:29-33, this response specifically addresses death, burial, Joseph's bones, Eleazar, generational memory, textual pluses, and non-heroic continuity.
Continue in Context
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Read Joshua 24:29-33 — Joshua, Joseph, and Eleazar Are BuriedSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Joshua 24:29-33, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Joshua
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clauses, names, repeated roots, boundary formulas, covenant terms, and the base text behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Josh.xml, 24:29–33
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Joshua with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level Hebrew, textual, translation, list, number, geographical, historical, and cross-reference notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Joshua PDF, printed pp. 450-451, translation and translator notes on 24:29–33
Open source ↗scholarly commentary article
Joshua
Richard D. Nelson
Oxford University Press, in The Oxford Bible Commentary, edited by John Barton and John Muddiman, 2001
Supports: Whole-book movement, literary boundaries, composition, history and archaeology limits, geography, theology, and material interpretive alternatives.
Exact location: Nelson, 'Joshua,' Oxford Bible Commentary, printed pp. 174-175, discussion of 24:29–33
Open source ↗