³⁰ When ^(A)Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation, the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh spoke, ^(B)it was good in their eyes.

³³ And the report ^(A)was good in the eyes of the people of Israel. And the people of Israel ^(B)blessed God and spoke no more of making war against them to destroy the land where the people of Reuben and the people of Gad were settled.

¹⁸ When they heard these things they fell silent. And they ^(A)glorified God, saying, ^(B)“Then to the Gentiles also God has ^(C)granted ^(D)repentance that leads to life.”

²¹ This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did as Memucan proposed.

⁴ and the plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly.

⁶ Then Achish called David and said to him, ^(A)“As the Lord lives, you have been honest, and to me it seems right that ^(B)you should march out and in with me in the campaign. For I have found nothing wrong in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords do not approve of you.

³² And David said to Abigail, ^(A)“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! ³³ Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, ^(B)who have kept me this day from bloodguilt ^(C)and from working salvation with my own hand!

^3 (A)God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?” ^(B)Then their anger^[a] against him subsided when he said this.

⁸ So when Esau saw ^(A)that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father,