Deuteronomy 20:19,20 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an ax against them: for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: Torrey's Topical Textbook
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The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire ... the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off ... for a welcome change in the fortunes of the Jews. ... he tolerated much that his father had forbidden, and the ... /.../chapter iiithe medes and the.htm