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" 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... "
A popular account of discoveries at Nineveh, abridged [from Nineveh and its ... - Page 254
by sir Austen Henry Layard - 1851
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A Short and Plain Exposition of the Old Testament, with Devotional ..., Volume 2

Job Orton - 1805 - 430 pages
...not cut them down, (for the tree of the h'eld [is] ?0 man's [life]) to employ [them] in the siege : Only the trees which thou knowest that they [be] not...against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be jubdued, CHAP. XXI. The txfuation of a. murder, w*«i the tlayer is unknown ; thoJtrtttorn is not to...
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A Short and Plain Exposition of the Old Testament: With Devotional ..., Volume 2

Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 428 pages
...the tree of the field [is] 20 man's [life]) to employ [them] in the siege ; Only the trees which-thou knowest that they [be] not trees for meat, thou shalt...down ; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city tl»t maketh war with thee, until it be subdued. CttAP. XXI, tyi expiation 6fa murder, when the slayer...
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The Plants: A Poem, Cantos the First and Second, with Notes ; and Occasional ...

William Tighe - 1808 - 182 pages
...may be seen in Dcut. xx. 20. where the Israelites are ordered not to employ fruittrees in sieges : " only the trees which thou knowest that they be not...city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued." 137. With flexile oars the precious barks of Tyre.—" Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thy oars."...
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Anonymiana: Or, Ten Centuries of Observations on Various Authors and Subjects

Samuel Pegge - 1809 - 542 pages
...them : for thou mayest eat of them ; and thou shalt not cut them down, to employ them in the siege." Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not...city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued." XCII. We write now Francis and Frances, and it is convenient enough to do so ; but otherwise there...
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Genesis to Chronicles

1815 - 706 pages
...nol cut them down (for the tree of ihe field is man's life) lo employ them in the siege : 20 Only ihe trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shall destroy and cut them down ; and thou shall build bulwarks againsl ihe city that makcth war with...
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Anonymiana: Or, Ten Centuries of Observations on Various Authors and Subjects

Samuel Pegge - 1818 - 392 pages
...them : for thou mayest eat of them ; and thou shalt not cut them down, to employ them in the siege. Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not...shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war witli thee, until it be subdued." XCII. We write now Francis and Frances, and it is convenient enough...
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the ...

1819 - 948 pages
...tree of the field «'» man's Itfi) to employ them in the siege : 20 Only the trees which thou knowcst e whole earth was of one language, and of one speech....they found a plain in the land of Shinar , and they CHAP. XXI. rF one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy Godgiveth thee to possess it, lying...
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The Poems of Caius Valerius Catullus, Volume 1

Gaius Valerius Catullus - 1821 - 248 pages
...them, for thou mayest eat of them, " and thou shalt not cut them down and employ them in the " siege ; only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees " for meat thou shalt destroy." — Deut. xx. 19, 20. Goddess of Syria's open meads, Of sacred woods, IdaKa't boast. 158 Cnidus, where...
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Illustrations of the holy Scriptures, Volume 3

George Paxton - 1825 - 552 pages
...in the siege : Only the trees which thou knowest that they '• Potttr's Gr. Antiq. vol. ii, p. 90. be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut...against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued."q The terrible distress to which the inhabitants of a besieged city were sometimes reduced...
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The Old Testament: Arranged in Historical & Chronological Order, (on the ...

George Townsend - 1826 - 902 pages
...the tree of the field is man's life) + to employ them in the in the .'./.. v. «*«• 20 Only tne trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for...and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that uiaketh war with thee> until j it k DEUTERONOMY XXI. I The expiation of an uncertain murder. 10 The...
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