Deuteronomy 20:19
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When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees of it by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageEgypt was the land from which the Lord delivered Israel, and its mention in Deuteronomy’s covenant setting recalls God’s past redemption. In the laws of warfare, this history reinforces Israel’s dependence on God rather than on destructive human power.
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Deuteronomy 20:19 mentions Egypt.
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