^{17 Ref} and David longeth, and saith, `Who doth give me to drink water from the well of Beth-Lehem, that `is' at the gate!'

^{18 Ref} And the three break through the camp of the Philistines, and draw water from the well of Beth-Lehem, that `is' at the gate, and bear and bring in unto David, and David hath not been willing to drink it, and poureth it out to Jehovah,

^{19 Ref} and saith, `Far be it from me, by my God, to do this; the blood of these men do I drink with their lives? for with their lives they have brought it;' and he was not willing to drink it; these `things' did the three mighty ones.