In time, the insidious influence of the Canaanites was felt, and it could be said: “They [the Israelites] continued rejecting [Jehovah’s] regulations and his covenant that he had concluded with their forefathers and his reminders with which he had warned them, and they went following vain idols and became vain themselves, even in imitation of the nations that were all around them, concerning whom Jehovah had commanded them not to do like them. ”
ברבות הימים, הורגשה ההשפעה המזיקה של הכנענים, וניתן היה לומר: ” וימאסו [בני ־ ישראל] את חוקיו [של יהוה] ואת בריתו אשר כרת את אבותם ואת עדוותיו אשר העיד בם, וילכו אחרי ההבל ויהבלו, ואחרי הגויים אשר סביבותם אשר ציווה יהוה אותם לבלתי עשות כהם ” (‏ מלכים ב ’. י ” ז: 15‏).