When Joshua had let the people go; when he had distributed their inheritances, and dismissed them severally to take possession of them. This was done before this time, whilst Joshua lived; but is now repeated in order to the discovery of the time, and cause, or occasion of the people's defection from God, and of God's desertion of them.
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Judges 2:6
6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.