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The Judgment of the Exodus
Joshua does not want to be a king. Joshua kills kings. And so it's a kind of a political theology that Joshua declines honors and for himself at the end of the book,. He's awarded the title of Moses, Ebed Yachte, servant of the Lord. It's sufficient for him, so he retires to his own little family inheritance and passes from the scene.He doesn't try to establish a dynasty or anything like that or a fortified city. He goes to settle in the country. They have been the Gibeonites illustrating that quite dramatically as Karam warfare unravels.