OLD TESTAMENT

1 Chronicles 11:17

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David longed, and said, “Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

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Verse 17. O that. Hebrew “Who will.” David wished to see his native country freed from the troops of the Philistines.—In. Hebrew “by the gate.”

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