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1 Chronicles 11:17-19
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17 David was thirsty and said, “How I wish someone would give me some water to drink[a] from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate!” 18 So the three elite warriors[b] broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate. They carried it back to David, but David refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the Lord 19 and said, “God forbid that I should do this![c] Should I drink the blood of these men who risked their lives?”[d] Because they risked their lives to bring it to him, he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 11:17 tn Heb “Who will give me water to drink?” On the rhetorical use of מִי (mi) here, see BDB 566 s.v. f.
  2. 1 Chronicles 11:18 tn Heb “the three,” referring to the three elite warriors mentioned in v. 12.
  3. 1 Chronicles 11:19 tn Heb “Far be it to me from my God from doing this.”
  4. 1 Chronicles 11:19 tn Heb “with their lives.” The same expression occurs later in this verse.
  5. 1 Chronicles 11:19 tn Heb “These things the three warriors did.”
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