4 Maccabees 3:9

9 Now all the rest were at supper,

4 Maccabees 3:9 In-Context

7 David had been attacking the Philistines all day long, and together with the soldiers of his nation had killed many of them.

8 Then when evening fell, he came, sweating and quite exhausted, to the royal tent, around which the whole army of our ancestors had encamped.

9 Now all the rest were at supper,

10 but the king was extremely thirsty, and though springs were plentiful there, he could not satisfy his thirst from them.

11 But a certain irrational desire for the water in the enemy's territory tormented and inflamed him, undid and consumed him.