# Now when Joshua

Here the narrator explains how the generations of Israelites after Joshua sinned and worshiped false gods so that Yahweh punished them, but then he would send judges to rescue them. This summary ends in 2:23.

# when Joshua ... of the land

The events of 1:1-2:5 happened after Joshua died, which is written at the end of the book of Joshua.

# to his own property

"to the place Yahweh had given him"