Deuteronomy 20:19

You may surround a city and fight against it for a long time to capture it. Even then, do not destroy its trees by cutting them with an axe. You can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees in the field people, that you should attack them?

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Previous · Deuteronomy 20:18If you don't, they will teach you to do all the disgusting things they do for their gods. Then you would sin against the LORD your God. Next · Deuteronomy 20:20But you may destroy trees you know do not grow fruit. Use them to build attack works against the city that is fighting you. Use them until the city falls.