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David said longingly, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

2 Samuel 23:15 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતી2 શમુએલ ૨૩:૧૫
દાઉદે તરસથી તલપતાં કહ્યું, “બેથલેહેમના દરવાજા પાસેના કૂવાનું પાણી પીવાની મને તીવ્ર ઇચ્છા થઈ છે.
हिन्दी2 शमूएल २३:१५
तब दाऊद ने बड़ी अभिलाषा के साथ कहा, “कौन मुझे बैतलहम के फाटक के पास के कुएँ का पानी पिलाएगा?”

In context

13Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

14David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

15David said longingly, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

16The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD.

17He said, “Be it far from me, LORD, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

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