# General Information: Moses continues speaking to the people of Israel. # wage war "fight in a war" # by wielding an ax against them "by cutting down the trees with an ax" # For is the tree of the field a man whom you should besiege? This rhetorical question is to remind the people of what they should already know. This question can be translated as a statement. AT: "For fruit trees are not people, so they are not your enemy." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])