Then Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died at the age of a hundred and ten years.
So they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-Heres. And, so the Mosaic leadership ended. Joshua did not hand over to anyone.
And all that generation too were gathered to their fathers, and another generation began to rise after them that did not know Jehovah or the work that He had done for Israel, which begs the question, "did they not know Jehovah because they had been left with no custodian to lead them as Moses had done for them with Joshua?"
I answer, no.
The people of Israel did not know Jehovah because they chose not to. They failed to make Jehovah each one for themselves a personal friend to follow. They instead made an idol of the idea of His essence to which they applied whenever they needed miracles. In peace time God was irrelevant. But, when they needed to win a war, there was need for some magic.
There was no need for Joshua to mentor and raise up another leader. Jehovah remained leader and king in Israel. In fact, Gideon had to remind them that neither he nor a son of his would rule over them; "Jehovah is the one who will rule over you," (Jg 8:23) Really, the need for Joshua to lead the people only arose over Jehovah's disallowance of Moses to lead them into the land of promise.
Consequently, Moses was only chosen for the sole purpose of bringing God's people into the land of promise. So, Joshua only completed what Moses could not, after which the need for that ceased.
God would by some administration or by the hands of warrior-judges use His nation to annihilate His enemies while they were to spread true worship - the right way to live - from surrounding nations to the ends of the earth till God would find a suitable way of bringing His son to earth and redeem him from manhood to rule as...
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