1 Chronicles 11:17

New English Translation

David was thirsty and said, “How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate!”

Cross References

1 Chronicles 11:16

David was in the stronghold at the time, while a Philistine garrison was in Bethlehem.

1 Chronicles 11:18

So the three elite warriors broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate. They carried it back to David, but David refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the Lord

Psalm 143:6

I spread my hands out to you in prayer; my soul thirsts for you in a parched land.

Psalm 60:9

Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will bring me to Edom?

Psalm 63:1

O God, you are my God! I long for you! My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

Isaiah 12:3

Joyfully you will draw water from the springs of deliverance.

John 4:10

Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

John 4:14

But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”