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Now this can be explained more clearly by the story of King David's thirst.
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David had been attacking the Philistines all day long, and together with the soldiers of his nation had killed many of them.
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Then when evening fell, he came, sweating and quite exhausted, to the royal tent, around which the whole army of our ancestors had encamped.
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Now all the rest were at supper,
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but the king was extremely thirsty, and though springs were plentiful there, he could not satisfy his thirst from them.