Levítico 25:47-48 NVT

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:35-55

Justice and mercy. The equity of the Mosaic laws has striking illustrations in the words now under review. We see it— I. IN THE KINDNESS ENJOINED TOWARDS THE POOR . 1 . Their necessities are to be relieved. 2 . The reasons for mercy are edifying. II. IN THE KINDNESS ENJOINED TOWARDS THE SLAVE . 1 . The Hebrew must show it. 2 . The stranger must show it. III. IN THE DETERMINATION OF THE RANSOM PRICE . In this... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:35-55

The law of personal servitude. I. GENERAL PRINCIPLE , love of our neighbour. Servitude admitted in that early stage of the world, but limited and modified, and its extinction provided for in that principle of love and compassion which was seized and exalted by the gospel. God's method to subdue and extinguish effects of man's fall by the vital force of higher motive. Distinction between strangers and fellow-Israelite preserved the covenant, therefore the religion which taught love... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:47-55

Rules are laid down for the case of an Israelite who has sold himself for a slave to a non-Israelite. In this case he is not set free at the end of six years, as he would be if his master were a countryman, but in other respects his treatment is to be like that of the man with an Israelite master. He may be redeemed by the value of his work down to the jubilee being paid by himself or his kinsman; he is to be set free when the jubilee comes at any rate; he is to be treated kindly while... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 25:47-54

A sojourner or stranger - Rather, a foreigner who has settled among you. See Leviticus 16:29, note; Exodus 20:10, note.Leviticus 25:54In these years - More properly, by one of these means. The extreme period of servitude in this case was six years, as when the master was a Hebrew Exodus 21:2.Looking at the law of the Jubilee from a simply practical point of view, its operation must have tended to remedy those evils which are always growing up in the ordinary conditions of human society. It... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 25:47

Leviticus 25:47. The stock of the strangers Hebrew , root, that is, one of the root or stock. So the word root is elsewhere used for the branch or progeny growing from it. He seems to denote one of a foreign race and country, transplanted into the land of Israel, and there having taken root among the people of God; yet even such a one, though he hath some privilege by it, shall not have power to keep a Hebrew servant from the benefit of redemption. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:35-55

Sympathetic treatment of others (25:35-55)Because all Israel existed in a special relation to God, Israelites were not to take advantage of each other. They could lend money to those in need, but were not to charge interest (35-38). They could give employment to those who wished to work for them to repay debts, but they could not make such people permanent slaves as they could foreigners (39-46).When Israelites sold themselves as slaves to resident foreigners to repay debts, their relatives had... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Leviticus 25:47

"And if a stranger or sojourner with thee be waxed rich, and thy brother be waxed poor beside him, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family; after that he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his brethren may redeem him; or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be waxed rich, he may redeem himself. And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 25:47-54

Leviticus 25:47-54. If a sojourner—wax rich, &c.— Equitable in all his laws, God here provides that the sojourner in Israel should have the same legal advantages with the native: to whom, if reduced, though he grants the peculiar privilege of being redeemed before the jubilee, if he has it in his power, or, if he has not, of receiving the benefit of the year of jubilee, yet he takes care that full compensation shall be made to the sojourner, and that the price of redemption shall be exactly... 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 25:8-55

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:35-55

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:35-55

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:47-55

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 25:47-54

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 25:47

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:35-55

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Leviticus 25:47

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 25:47-54

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 25:1-55

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 25:8-55

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