12. but Shammah held his ground in the middle of the field and beat back the Philistines. So the lord brought about a great victory.
13. Once during the harvest, when David was at the cave of Adullam, the Philistine army was camped in the valley of Rephaim. The Three (who were among the Thirty—an elite group among David’s fighting men) went down to meet him there.
14. David was staying in the stronghold at the time, and a Philistine detachment had occupied the town of Bethlehem.
15. David remarked longingly to his men, “Oh, how I would love some of that good water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem.”