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2 Samuel 23:15-17
American Standard Version
2 Samuel 23:15-17
American Standard Version
15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate! 16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto Jehovah. 17 And he said, Be it far from me, O Jehovah, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of the men that went [a]in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
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- 2 Samuel 23:17 Hebrew with their lives.
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