The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate!
CH1 11:18 And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and
drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took
it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured
it out to the LORD.
CH1 11:19 And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing:
shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in
jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it.
Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.
CH1 11:20 And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three:
for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a
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