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2 Samuel 23:16
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14 David was then in athe stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.  
15 And David said with longing, “Oh, that someone would give me a drink of the water from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”
16 So the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, drew water from the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David. Nevertheless he would not drink it, but poured it out to the Lord.
17 And he said, “Far be it from me, O Lord, that I should do this! Is this not athe blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives?” Therefore he would not drink it. These things were done by the three mighty men.  
18 Now aAbishai the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of another three. He lifted his spear against three hundred men, killed them, and won a name among these three.  
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John Wesley's Notes
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2 Samuel 23:16

Would not - Lest by gratifying himself upon such terms, he should seem either to set too high a price upon the satisfaction of his appetite, or too low a price upon the lives of his soldiers. Poured it - As a kind of drink offering, and acknowledgment of God's goodness in preserving the lives of his captains in so dangerous an enterprize; and to shew, that he esteemed it as a sacred thing, which it was not fit for him to drink.




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