It happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.
Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; [It means that he was beginning to be a little feeble. The idea of "stricken in years" refers to more or less the feebleness that oftentimes accompanies old age.] ... and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed ( Joshua 13:1 ).