A messenger that can be trusted is worth much to the people who send him. He is like cool water during the hot days of harvest.
If a messenger cannot be trusted, then there will be trouble around him. But if a person can be trusted, then there will be peace.
These words will teach you true and important things. Then you can give good answers to the one that sent you.
Good news from a faraway place is like a cool drink of water when you are hot and thirsty.
Never let a fool carry your message. If you do, it will be like cutting off your own feet. You are asking for trouble.
Then Phinehas and the leaders left that place and went home. They left the people of Reuben and Gad in the land of Gilead and went back to Canaan. They went back to the people of Israel and told them what happened.