20:20 However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, 1 and you may use it to build siege works 2 against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.
1 tnHeb “however, a tree which you know is not a tree for food you may destroy and cut down.”
2 tnHeb “[an] enclosure.” The term מָצוֹר (matsor) may refer to encircling ditches or to surrounding stagings. See R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 238.