The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: your God.
DEU 20:19 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 life) to employ
them in the siege:
DEU 20:20 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.
DEU 21:1 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God
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