of Jupiter, which was almost certainly the successor to the temple of Rimmon in which Naaman had to worship (2 Kgs 5:18). An end to the sanctity of a place surely signals a major change in the beliefs of the populace. Remarkably, during the Iron Age in Palestine, the range of sacred places that had existed in the previous era ceased. If the Canaanites actually moved from the towns into the hill country villages, would they have abandoned the worship of the divinities to which they had been attached