2 Samuel 23:16-18

Common English Bible

¹⁶ So the three warriors broke through the Philistine camp and drew water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it and poured it out to the Lord.

¹⁷ “The Lord forbid that I should do that,” he said. “Isn’t this the blood of men who risked their lives?” So he refused to drink it.

These were the kinds of things the three warriors did.

¹⁸ Now Zeruiah’s son Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the Thirty.^[a] He raised his spear against three hundred men, killed them, and made a name for himself along with the Three.