This is better understood by comparing it to 1 Chronicles 11:19.

Is not this the blood ...? —The Hebrew here is simply an interrogative exclamation, the blood of the men? but in…

And he said, be it far from me, O Lord, that one should do
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Drink of the water th…

David once earnestly longed for the water at the well of Bethlehem. It seems to be an instance of weakness. He was thirsty; he had often refreshed …