A moment in scripture
1 Chronicles 11:17
And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth–lehem, that is at the gate!
The surrounding passage
- 1 Chronicles 11:15
Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
- 1 Chronicles 11:16
And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines’ garrison was then at Beth–lehem.
- 1 Chronicles 11:18
And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth–lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the Lord,
- 1 Chronicles 11:19
And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.