From the Wilderness to the Jordan 33:50–56 God commanded that all of the Canaanites were to be exterminated, along with all their idolatrous symbols. 33:52 their high places. Hills on which Canaanite altars and shrines were placed. 33:56 I will do to you as I thought to do to them. If Israel failed to obey God, she would be the object of God’s punishment in exactly the same way as the Canaanites were.