1 Chronicles 11:15-17

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁵ Three of the thirty chiefs went down to the rock to David at the cave of Adullam, while the army of Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim. ¹⁶ David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem. ¹⁷ David said longingly, “O that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!”