Joshua 23:14

Way of all the earth. Rather, “in the way of all the earth.” Joshua faces this unavoidable end of the road with calmness and confidence. It is not a strange ending, for all men of the past, save Enoch and Elijah, have come to that destination. The only exception in the future will be those who will be translated at the coming of Jesus (1 Cor. 15:51–54). Joshua was dying fully satisfied with God and with what God had done. He was dying with a spiritual interest in the survivors, and the greatness of his character lay in the fact that he himself was so much concealed behind the grandeur of his own exploits, and the God who led him in them. His great question was, “What will they think of my God when I am gone? They know Him now, but will they remember?”