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highlight their failure to tell their children of it.
Joshua’s death at 110 is noted, and then his place of burial.
Both of these things had a significance to the people of that day,
which is not immediately clear to us. That God gave Joshua 110
years of life would have caused the ancient Israelite scholar to
meditate on the possible significance of the number 110. That is
because the faithful Israelite scholar did not believe that God
wasted His breath giving out mere information. Every detail is
important. But, what could the number 110 mean, in this context?
Moses had lived 120 years (Dt. 34:7), and 12 is the number of
the Covenant (12 tribes, 12 apostles, etc.). Eleven is the number
reached by subtracting one from 12, and this is significant in
Scripture. Thus, after Judas’s treason and death, there were
only eleven apostles. In line with this, the last story in the book
of Judges shows the virtual obliteration of one of the twelve
tribes, because of treason; and the next to the last story shows
the apostasy of Dan, which eventually was blotted out from
among the tribes (cf. Rev. 7:4ff.). Possibly, Joshua’s death at 110
shows the void left when Moses, the greatest leader of all, died.
Also, Samson was betrayed for 1100 pieces of silver, and
Micah betrayed the covenant for 1100 pieces of silver (Jud. 16:5;
18:2). Possibly, then, the use of the number 110 in connection
with Joshua means this: The great work that Joshua did (110)
was undone by betrayals (1100). So great was Joshua’s work that
it took ten times (1100) as much to undo it, as to perform it in
the first place (110). Later in Scripture, eleven is used for the
number of the destruction of the Covenant (Jer. 39:2), and
Ezekiel picks this up to say that just as Jerusalem had been
destroyed in the eleventh year, so also would be Tjwe (Ezk. 26:1)
and Egypt (Ezk. 30:20; 31:1). (See also Matthew 20:6, 9.)
So, drawing it together, we may say that possibly Joshua’s
death at 110 stood as a memorial to Israel, a threat that if they
were not faithful, their number would be diminished, and they
would lose their covenant status, just as Joshua had warned
them in Joshua 23 and 24.
Similarly, Joshua’s burial site was a memorial. It was at a
place called in Joshua 24:30 Timnath-Serah, “Portion of Abundancefl
but here called Timnath-Heres, the “Portion of the
Sun.” This highlights the greatest and most miraculous work of