Through Moses, God had commanded: “You must drive away all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their stone figures, and all their images of molten metal you should destroy, and all their sacred high places you should annihilate. ” ​ — Num.
इस्राएल लोकांनी प्रतिज्ञात देशात प्रवेश केला, तेव्हा यहोवा आपल्याकडून काय अपेक्षा करतो हे त्यांना माहीत होते.