19
God forbid that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men with their lives? for with their lives they brought it. So he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty .
17
And David longed, and said, Who will give me water to drink of the well of Bethleem, that is in the gate?
18
And the three broke through the camp of the Philistines, and they drew water out of the well that was in Bethleem, which was in the gate, and they took it, and came to David: but David would not drink it, and poured it out to the Lord, and said,
19
God forbid that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men with their lives? for with their lives they brought it. So he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty .
20
And Abisa the brother of Joab, he was chief of three: he drew his sword against three hundred slain at one time, and he had a name among the three.
21
He was more famous than the two of the three, and he was chief them; yet he reached not to the three.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.