The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:11-12
So far as the tillage of the land went, the jubilee year was to have the same effect as a sabbatical year. read more
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Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 25:8-13
The land was to be divided by lot among the families of the Israelites when the possession of it was obtained. Numbers 26:52-56; Numbers 33:54, etc. At the end of every seventh sabbatical cycle of years, in the year of Jubilee, each field or estate that might have been alienated was to be restored to the family to which it had been originally allotted.Leviticus 25:8Seven sabbaths of years - seven weeks of years.Leviticus 25:9Cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound - Rather, cause the sound of... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 25:12
Leviticus 25:12. It shall be holy So it was, because it was sequestered, in great part, from worldly employments, and dedicated to God, and to the exercise of holy joy and thankfulness; and because it was a type of that holy and happy jubilee which they were to expect and enjoy under the Messiah. The increase thereof Such things as it produced of itself. Out of the field Whence they, in common with others, might take it as they needed it; but must not put it into barns. See Leviticus... read more
Donald C. Fleming
Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:1-34
Sabbatical and jubilee years (25:1-34)When the Israelites conquered Canaan and divided it among their tribes and families, they were not to be selfish or greedy in their use of the land. Just as people and their working animals were to rest one day in seven, so the land was to rest one year in seven. The lack of cultivation during this seventh or sabbatical year gave people the opportunity to recognize in a special way that God was the rightful owner of the land. At the same time it gave the... read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 25:12
holy. See note on Exodus 3:5 . read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 25:12
12. ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field, &c.—All that the ground yielded spontaneously during that period might be eaten for their necessary subsistence, but no persons were at liberty to hoard or form a private stock in reserve. read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 25:1-55
F. Sanctification of the possession of land by the sabbatical and jubilee years ch. 25Chapter 25 concludes the laws God gave the Israelites on Mt. Sinai. It contains the only legislation on the subject of land ownership in the Pentateuch. These laws regarding the Promised Land correspond to the laws Moses previously gave regarding the people of Israel. God owned both the Israelites and the land He was giving them."The central theme of this last set of instructions is that of restoration.... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 25:8-12
The observance of the year of jubilee 25:8-12The Israelites were to observe the year of jubilee every fiftieth year, the year following seven seven-year periods. Wenham believed the jubilee was a short year only 49 days long inserted into the seventh month of the forty-ninth year [Note: Ibid., p. 319. See the discussion in Ross, pp. 458-59.] This is a minority view. On the Day of Atonement of that year a priest was to blow the ram’s horn (shophar) to announce the beginning of the jubilee year.... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 25:8-55
2. The year of jubilee 25:8-55"The Jubilee legislation found in Leviticus 25 presents a vision of social and economic reform unsurpassed in the ancient Near East." [Note: Robert Gnuse, "Jubilee Legislation in Leviticus: Israel’s Vision of Social Reform," Biblical Theology Bulletin 15:2 (April 1985):43.] The word "jubilee" probably comes from the Hebrew yabal, meaning "to bring [forth]," as in the bringing forth of produce. [Note: See Robert North, Sociology of the Biblical Jubilee, pp. 96-97.]... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:8-55
Year of jubilee: III. The blessed kingdom. It may be thought that, while it is indeed true that the year of jubilee has a true counterpart in that dispensation of spiritual emancipation, social readjustment, regeneration, rest, joy, in which we stand; yet, on the other hand, there is so much of detraction in the sins and sorrows of the present time as to make the one but a very imperfect picture of the other. There is truth in this thought: it is only in a qualified sense that we can speak... read more