Judges 2:10

were gathered unto their fathers This expression (as here only in 2 Kings 22:20 = 2 Chronicles 34:28), and the commoner -was gathered unto his people" (P), referred originally to the family sepulchre; then to the shadowy life of Sheol, the Underworld; finally it was used as a euphemism for death.

which knew not the Lord in the sense in which the previous generation had known Him, by personal experience of His work, see Judges 2:7. According to this writer the death of Joshua marked a cleavage between the age of faith and the age of deterioration; the prophets Hosea (Judges 9:10 ff.) and Ezekiel (16) take an even gloomier view.