12 but Shammah took a position in the middle of the plot, defended it, and struck down the Philistines. The Lord accomplished a great victory.
13 At harvesttime, three of the thirty chiefs went down and joined David at the fortress of Adullam, while a force of Philistines were camped in the Rephaim Valley.
14 At that time, David was in the fortress, and a Philistine fort was in Bethlehem.
15 David had a craving and said, "If only someone could give me a drink of water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem."
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. He raised his spear against three hundred men, killed them, and made a name for himself along with the Three.