At hearing of the death of his son by Bathsheba, David spoke these words concerning his son:
2 Sam 12:23b
I will go to him, but he will not return to me."
David is making in this one little sentence a huge statement. He is acknowledging eternal life, not only for him but for his child. They cannot be together now but will be in eternity.

David laments the following at the cave of Adullam.
“Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
Ponder this verse. When we think of Bethlehem, we automatically think of Jesus, born in Bethlehem. Remember what Jesus said to the Samaritan woman at the well?

John 4:10
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."

So when David longed for a drink of water from Bethlehem, was he speaking prophetically?

Even though David was thirsty and his men risked lives to get him the water, David then poured the water on the ground without drinking any of it.  This may sound confusing to us.  What David was doing was pouring out the water as a sacrificial act of worship.

It is very clear that David's mighty men were really MIGHTY men.  David started with several hundred before he became king, then out of the several hundred were thirty special mighty men and then there were three extraordinary men.

David captures and/or defeats Rabbah, Moab, Hadadezer, Damascus, Edom.  
"The Lord gave David victory everywhere he went." 
(Remember, God had promised earlier in Genesis 13:17 and Exodus 32:13 that He would give His people every place they set their foot.  This applies in land procurement as well as military success.)

Even though David had victory over his enemies, he had to be constantly at war.  The Lord didn't do David's fighting for him, David had to do it himself.  He was given victory over the people living in all the lands that Abraham walked, which included the land known as Syria and Jordan and Lebanon today.  Great lesson for us today...in all our spiritual battles, the Lord is more than willing to do the fighting for us. (Ephesians 6:10-18)