Use uncut stones to build the altar of the Lord your God and offer burnt offerings to the Lord your God on it.

just as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used. Then they offered burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed fellowship offerings on it.

Then firing the sticks, he let the foxes loose among the uncut grain of the Philistines, and all the corded stems as well as the living grain and the vine-gardens and the olives went up in flames.

Thou camest but yesterday, and should I unquiet thee today to go with us? I will go whither I go. But return thou and carry again thy brethren. Mercy and truth be with thee."

Therefore let us enact a covenant with our God to send away all these women and their offspring, in keeping with your counsel, my lord, and that of those who respect the commandments of our God. And let it be done according to the law.

And let the king's decision which he will enact be disseminated throughout all his kingdom, vast though it is. Then all the women will give honor to their husbands, from the most prominent to the lowly."

While still uncut shoots,
they would dry up quicker than any other plant.

The LORD is king, be the people never so inpatient; he sitteth upon the cherubims, be the earth never so unquiet.

It is by me that kings reign
and rulers enact just law;

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but an unquiet mind maketh it heavy.

Those who enact unjust policies are as good as dead, those who are always instituting unfair regulations,

If men came to get your grapes, would they not let some be uncut on the vines? if thieves came by night, would they not make waste till they had enough?