The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that [is] at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
Ver. 11. And the cruse of water.] Clepsydram, the hour glass, as some render it; others understand it of a bottle of rose-water standing there to refresh him. But probably it was a cruse of common water to be used either for drink or for washing. Iudaei etiam in lecto purgantur, saith Clement of Alexandia. a The Jews wash by night many times. The Turks also are much in this ceremony.
a Strom., lib. iv. cap. 7.