1;  Joshua assembles the tribes at Shechem.
  2;  A brief history of God's benefits, from Terah.
 14;  He renews the covenant between them and God.
 26;  A stone the witness of the covenant.
 29;  Joshua's age, death, and burial.
 32;  Joseph's bones are buried.
 33;  Eleazar dies.

 * Joshua.
   This must have been a different assembly from that mentioned
   in the preceding chapter, though probably held not long after
   the former.

 * Shechem.
   As it is immediately added, that "they presented themselves
   before God," which is supposed to mean at the tabernacle; some
   are of opinion that Joshua caused it to be conveyed from
   Shiloh to Shechem on this occasion, to give the greater
   solemnity to his last meeting with the people.  The Vatican
   and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint, however, read
   [Selo,] both here and in verse 25; which many suppose to have
   been the original reading.  Dr. Shuckford supposes that the
   covenant was made at Shechem, and that the people went to
   Shiloh to confirm it.  But the most probable opinion seems to
   be that of Dr. Kennicott, that when all the tribes were
   assembled as Shechem, Joshua called the chiefs to him on that
   mount, which had before been consecrated by the law, and by
   the altar which he had erected.

  Ge 12:6  33:18,19  35:4  Jud 9:1-3  1Ki 12:1 
 * called.
  23:2  Ex 18:25,26 
 * presented.
  1Sa 10:19  Ac 10:33