Deuteronomy 20:19-20

¹⁹When 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 axe 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?

²⁰But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.

— Deuteronomy 20:19-20

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Cross References for Deuteronomy 20:19-20

• Deuteronomy 26:6
• Matthew 3:10
• John 15:2-8
• Matthew 21:19
• Isaiah 37:33
• Deuteronomy 1:28
• Luke 13:7-9
• Jeremiah 33:4
• Jeremiah 6:6
• Ecclesiastes 9:14

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