When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them? People Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Hivite, Hivites, Jebusites, Moses, PerizzitesPlaces Beth-baal-peor, EgyptTopics Armies, Arms, Ax, Axe, Besiege, Besieged, Canst, Capture, Countryside, Cut, Destroy, Eat, Employ, Field, Fight, Fighting, Force, Forcing, Fruit, Layest, Lifting, Making, Man's, Mayest, Order, Presence, Putting, Shut, Siege, Swinging, Thereof, Town, Tree, Trees, War, Waste, WieldingOutline 1. The priest's exhortation to encourage the people to battle5. The officers' proclamation of who are to be dismissed from the war 10. How to use the cities that accept or refuse the proclamation of peace 16. What cities must be devoted 19. Trees must not be destroyed in the siege Jump to Previous Ax Axe Besiege Besieged City Cut Destroy Eat Employ Life Making Mayest Siege Thereof Time Tree Trees War WieldingJump to Next Ax Axe Besiege Besieged City Cut Destroy Eat Employ Life Making Mayest Siege Thereof Time Tree Trees War WieldingLibrary 'Fit, Though Few''Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. 2. And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against Me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. 3. Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture Sharon. Caphar Lodim. The Village of those of Lydda. Appeal to the Christian Women of the South Deuteronomy Parallel Verses NASB: "When you besiege a city a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you?KJV: When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: Links Deuteronomy 20:19 NIV • Deuteronomy 20:19 NLT • Deuteronomy 20:19 ESV • Deuteronomy 20:19 NASB • Deuteronomy 20:19 KJVResources Deuteronomy 20:19 Bible AppsDeuteronomy 20:19 Parallel Deuteronomy 20:19 Biblia Paralela Deuteronomy 20:19 Chinese Bible Deuteronomy 20:19 French Bible Deuteronomy 20:19 German Bible Deuteronomy 20:19 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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