Deuteronomy 20:17-19

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁷ You must completely destroy them – the Hethite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite – as the Lord your God has commanded you, ¹⁸ so that they won’t teach you to do all the detestable acts they do for their gods, and you sin against the Lord your God.^(A)

¹⁹ ‘When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it in order to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can get food from them. Do not cut them down. Are trees of the field human, to come under siege by you?