The second half of the book of Joshua is, frankly, rather boring.
It starts with a recap of all the battles that the people of Israel won both in lists and in a dialogue between Joshua and God. The territory they have won is distributed to the tribes.
Cities of refuge are established - where someone who kills unintentionally can flee to avoid being killed in return. This is the first distinction we find between the concepts of murder and manslaughter and that they should have different punishments.
Then Joshua gives his final exhortation, the people renew their covenant with God and Joshua dies and is buried. We are now set to begin the history of the nation of Israel - because they have now become not just group of wandering tribes, but a nation with cities and land and laws.
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