4 Maccabees 3:6-8

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King David’s Thirst

⁶ Now this can be explained more clearly by the story of King David’s thirst. ⁷ David had been attacking the Philistines all day long and together with the soldiers of his nation had killed many of them.^{(A) 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.