When the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”

So he showed them the way into the city, and they put the city to the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.

Yet they did not listen even to their judges, for they lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their ancestors had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord; they did not follow their example.

In order to test Israel, whether or not they would take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their ancestors did,

Sing of it, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way.