Jonadab then said to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill; when your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me some food to eat, and let her prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat from her hand.’”

David was thirsty and said, "How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate!"