Deuteronómio 20:20

A Biblia Sagrada

Mas as rvores que souberes que no so rvores de alimento, destru-las-s e cort-las-s; e contra a cidade que guerrear contra ti edificars baluartes, at que esta seja vencida.

Parallel Translations

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Mas as rvores cujos frutos souberes no se comem, destru-las-s, cortando-as; e, contra a cidade que guerrear contra ti, edificars baluartes, at que seja derribada.

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
Mas as rvores que souberes que no so rvores de comer destru-las-s e cort-las-s; e contra a cidade que guerrear contra ti edificars baluartes, at que esta seja derribada.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou shalt build: Deuteronomy 1:28, 2 Chronicles 26:15, Ecclesiastes 9:14, Isaiah 37:33, Jeremiah 6:6, Jeremiah 33:4, Ezekiel 17:17

be subdued: Heb. come down

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 3:19 - fell 2 Kings 3:25 - and felled

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat,.... Which might be known not only by their not having fruit upon them, but by other tokens, and even at a time of year when there was no fruit on any, which might be sometimes the season of a siege:

thou shalt destroy and cut them down; if so to do was of any disservice to the enemy, or of any service to them, as follows; they had a liberty to destroy them if they would:

and thou shall build bulwarks against the city that maketh war, until it be subdued; build bulwarks of the trees cut down, and raise batteries with them, or make machines and engines of the wood of them, to cast stones into the city to annoy the inhabitants of it, in order to make them surrender, and until they do it. All this may be an emblem of the axe being to be laid to fruitless trees in a moral and spiritual sense; and of trees of righteousness, laden with the fruits of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, being preserved and never to be cut down or rooted up; see Matthew 3:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Directions intended to prevent wanton destruction of life and property in sieges.

Deuteronomy 20:16

Forbearance, however, was not to be shown toward the Canaanite nations, which were to be utterly exterminated (compare Deuteronomy 7:1-4). The command did not apply to beasts as well as men (compare Joshua 11:11, Joshua 11:14).

Deuteronomy 20:19

The parenthesis may he more literally rendered “for man is a tree of the field,” i. e., has his life from the tree of the field, is supported in life by it (compare Deuteronomy 24:6). The Egyptians seem invariably to have cut down the fruit-trees in war.