Deuteronomy 20:20

Modern English Version

However, you may destroy and cut down only the trees which you know are not fruit trees, so that you may build siege engines against the city that makes war with you until it falls.

Cross References

2 Kings 3:19

You will strike every fortified city and every choice city, and will cut down every good tree, and stop every spring of water, and you will ruin every good piece of land with stones.”

2 Chronicles 26:15

In Jerusalem he made war machines by skilled men to be placed on towers and corners to shoot arrows and large stones. And his name went out for a great distance. He received great help until he was even more powerful.

Ecclesiastes 9:14

There was a small city with a few men in it. A great king came against it, surrounded it, and built great siege works against it.

Isaiah 37:33

“Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor build a siege ramp against it.

Jeremiah 33:4

For thus says the Lord God of Israel concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which were torn down to make a defense against the siege mounds and against the sword:

Jeremiah 6:6

For thus says the Lord of Hosts: Hew down trees and build a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished. She is full of oppression in her midst.

Ezekiel 17:17

Nor shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war by casting up mounts and building forts to cut off many persons.

Deuteronomy 1:28

Where shall we go up? Our brothers have discouraged our hearts, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and walled up to heaven. And moreover, we have seen the sons of the Anakites there.’ ”

Deuteronomy 20:19

When you lay siege to a city for a long time, in making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy the trees there by chopping them down with an axe, for you may eat from them; and you shall not cut them down, for the tree of the field is not a man in which to lay siege.

Deuteronomy 21:1

If someone is found slain in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess, lying in the field, and it is not known who has slain him,