Now Joshua was old and well stricken in years; and Yahweh said to him, You are old and well stricken in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.
"Thou art old ..."  (Joshua 13:1).  "Joshua was 110 years old the year he died  (Joshua 24:29); so he must have been more than 90 years old at this time."[9]  If one wonders why the age of Joshua is stressed here, "It was a principal reason why he should speedily apply himself to the dividing of that which he had conquered."[10]  Henry further observed that, "All people, but especially old people, should set themselves to do quickly that which must be done before they die, lest death prevent them."[11]  "Joshua's original commission required that he should `divide the land' to Israel, and his advanced age was a special reason for discharging that duty at once."[12]