4 Maccabees 3:8-10

Revised Standard Version

⁸ Then when evening fell, he^[a] came, sweating and quite exhausted, to the royal tent, around which the whole army of our ancestors had encamped. ⁹ Now all the rest were at supper, ¹⁰ but the king was extremely thirsty, and although springs were plentiful there, he could not satisfy his thirst from them.