You shall fell every good tree - This is not an infringement of the rule laid down in Deuteronomy 20:19-20. The Israelites were not forbidde…

And ye shall smite ... shall fell ... —These verbs are continuative of those in the last verse, that is, they do not …

And you shall smite every fenced city and every choice city ,
&c.] That is, the inhabitants of them with the sword, …

The king of Israel laments their distress and the danger they were in. He called these kings together, yet he charges it to Providence. Thus th…