1 Chronicles 11:17
“And Dauid longed and said, Oh that one would giue me drinke of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate.”
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1 Chronicles 11:17 Context
15¶ Now three of the thirtie captaines, went downe to the rocke of Dauid, into the caue of Adullam, and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 16And Dauid was then in the hold, and the Philistines garison was then at Bethlehem. 17And Dauid longed and said, Oh that one would giue me drinke of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate. 18And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and tooke it and brought it to Dauid. But Dauid would not drink of it, but powred it out to the Lord, 19And said, My God forbid it mee, that I should doe this thing. Shall I drinke the blood of these men, that haue put their liues in ieopardie? for with the ieopardie of their liues, they brought it: therfore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.
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And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that [is] at the gate!
- King James Version
David had a craving and said, "Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!"
- New American Standard Version (1995)