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# 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. Alternate translation: "For fruit trees are not people, so they are not your enemy." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])