~ The Israelites Remember and Then Forget ~

  After Joshua had dismissed the Israelites,
they went to take possession of the land,
each to his own inheritance.
The people served the Lord
throughout the lifetime of Joshua
and of the elders who outlived him
and who had seen
all the great things the Lord had done for Israel.

Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord,
died at the age of a hundred and ten.
And they buried him in the land of his inheritance,
at Timnath Heres in the hill country of Ephraim,
north of Mount Gaash.

After that whole generation
had been gathered to their fathers,
another generation grew up,
who knew neither the Lord
nor what He had done for Israel.
Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord
and served the Baals.
They forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers . . ..

(Judges 2:6-12)