1. Joshua 23:14 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does it mean to go the way of all the earth?

Joshua 23:14 (ESV)

14 “And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.

With this phrase Joshua is telling the people that he knows his death is near (see 1 Kings 2:2). It emphasizes the universality of death as a common human experience.1