Judges 2:7

the elders or sheikhs, who, as the head men of families and clans, would take a leading part in maintaining the customs and religion of the people.

that outlived lit. -that prolonged days after," a common expression in Deut., e.g. Deuteronomy 4:26; Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 5:33; Deuteronomy 11:9 etc.

all the great work of the Lord So Deuteronomy 11:7; referring to the exodus, the wandering, the invasion, here, as in Deuteronomy 11:2-7, regarded as having taken place within the life-time of one generation (Moore); instead of seen, Joshua 24:31 has the more general term known. This verse (Joshua 24:31, where it seems to have been adopted from here) clearly comes from the hand of D; its position in the present extract from Joshua 24, disturbing the sequence of Judges 2:6; Judges 2:8, shews it to be a later insertion into the narrative of E.