 | Austen Henry Layard - 1849 - 560 pàgines
...forbidden to cut down and employ, for this purCHAP. V.] MOVEABLE TOWERS. pose, trees which afforded sustenance to man. " Only the trees which thou knowest...and cut them down : and thou shalt build bulwarks ayainst the city that maketh war with thee until it be subdued." * When the machine containing the... | |
 | 1845 - 586 pàgines
...thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege : only the trees which thou knowest that they be not...trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down." Deut. xx. 19, 20. Here we have the case of a people actually sent forth by the Lord to execute His... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1849 - 438 pàgines
...wicker-work. The Jews were forbidden to cut down and employ, for this purpose, trees which afforded sustenance to man. " Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shall destroy and cut them down : and thou shall build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1850 - 574 pàgines
...wicker-worky The Jews were forbidden to cut down and employ, for this pur* Jeremiah, lii. 4. pose, trees which afford sustenance to man. " Only the trees...battering-ram consisted of a simple frame-work, not forming an Eas.rclief reprowutmg Wj.T•om b f.irf n bccif £fd Cily. A Patt«nn£ ram rlrnwu up 10 the V. ails,... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1850 - 280 pàgines
...round about." (1) These forts or towers, if stationary, were solidly constructed of wood ; if moveable, they consisted of a light frame covered with wicker-work....thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shall destroy and cut them down ; and Ihou shall build bulwarks against tlte city that maketh war with... | |
 | 1850 - 830 pàgines
...employed in the siege, p to go from before thee. <UCh. 5. 2. 26. 10. 2Ch.ll.21, 22. them in the siege : 20 d say unto her. Is it well with thee ? is it well...the man of God to the hill, she caught him * by the T CHAPTER XXI. JLP one be found slain in the land which the LOED thy God giveth thee to possess it,... | |
 | sir Austen Henry Layard - 1851 - 442 pàgines
...wood and wicker-work ; and the Jews were expressly forbidden to use for the purpose trees affording sustenance to man, — " only the trees which thou...city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued." f Ezekiel, in prophesying the destruction of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar, has faithfully recorded the events... | |
 | Sir Austen Henry Layard - 1851 - 442 pàgines
...wood and wicker-work; and the Jews were expressly forbidden to use for the purpose trees affording sustenance to man, — " only the trees which thou...against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued."f Ezekiel, in prophesying the destruction of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar, has faithfully recorded... | |
 | WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH - 1851 - 716 pàgines
...thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) 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. Which, though they chiefly tended to fruit trees, even in an enemy's country, yet you will find a case... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1851 - 818 pàgines
...thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shall destroy and cut them lown : and thou shall build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee until it be subdued."J When the machine containing the battering-ram was a simple framework, and did not form an... | |
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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... 
