Joshua takes over from Moses

Joshua took over command now and with the special angelic help, the Israelites crossed the Jordan and took Jericho and the fortress towns including most of Canaan.
The men were weary of warfare and were eager to start farming their own new lands and enjoy the fruits of their conquest, rather than complete the over running and ethnic cleansing of lands seemingly so far away from their kin, left behind in the central Canaan area, Kenite, Jebusite, Perizzite and Girgashite country from the coast to the Jordan.
So the conquest was never fully completed and consequently the remaining resentful enemy populations were able to tempt many neighbouring Israeli settlements by their immoral lifestyles, involving elements of false relgion which weakened their faith and resolve.
The battle, both physical and spiritual was fought doggedly by both sides, for every brook stream hill and valley community.
Jehovah was of determined to prevent the downfall of this, his heaven backed Holy nation, as it was the necessary channel for his future plans to be fulfilled through.
Whether the Israelites were faithful or moral, which he thought was very dubious, they had to be protected for now, at least.
They were like all humans, peculiarly religiously stubborn one moment, then extremely lax the next, leading Jehovah to exasperation.
One year giving them ear to hear their pleas, and prayers for forgiveness and assistance, to end the oppression of marauding military bands from neighbouring tribes, such as the Amorites, Amalekites, or Moabites.
This led to the sending of Michael who had led them through the wilderness years to patch things up with the help of Gabriel.
Then when everything was running nice and smooth again, only to see their resolve go and go back to their false gods and worship, enticed by the natives and their sexual festivities.
Michael and Gabriel were often in the thick of it, intervening many times as Satan with the help of Baal, Dagon, Molech and especially Ashtoreth, who was worshipped all over the Mediterranean as Astarte.
This crowd of demons main preoccupation was to unseat the faith of Isreal and the line of Abraham but this Jehovah would not let happen til it suited his purposes.
The pressure nevertheless was relentless.