20 However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees(A) and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.

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20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.

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15 In Jerusalem he made devices invented for use on the towers and on the corner defenses so that soldiers could shoot arrows and hurl large stones from the walls. His fame spread far and wide, for he was greatly helped until he became powerful.

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15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

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14 There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it.

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14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

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