Leviticus 25:15-16 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:8-55

Year of jubilee: 1 . A nation's joy. On every fiftieth year of national life, as the sun went down on the great Day of Atonement, when the sins of the nation had been forgiven, and peace with God was once more assured, the sound of many trumpets ushered in the blessed year of jubilee. Then No nation now can expect to enjoy such an institution as this; we must learn to dispense with such miraculous arrangements as that which made the year of jubilee a possible thing to Israel ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:8-55

Year of jubilee: II. The world's redemption. The whole Christian era is one long year of jubilee. It is "the acceptable year of the Lord" ( Luke 4:19 ). That "acceptable year," the fiftieth year in the Jewish calendar, was a year of These, in a deeper, a spiritual sense, are the characteristics of the Christian era: 1 . It is a time of spiritual emancipation. Sin is the slavery of the soul; "men are "holden with the cords of their sins" ( Proverbs 5:22 ). They are in the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:13-17

The Israelites were only tenants of God. They might regard themselves as owners for fifty years, but at the end of every fifty years the land was to come back to him to whom the Lord had assigned it, or to his representative. It might be bought and sold on that understanding, the value of the purchase being four. d by reckoning the price of the harvests up to the next jubilee day; but in this period only "the years of the fruits" were to be counted, that is, the sabbatical years, in which... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 25:15-16

The number of years of the fruits - i. e. according to the number of harvests. The average value of a yearly crop might of course be estimated, and the sabbatical years were to be deducted from the series. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 25:15

Leviticus 25:15. According to the number of years thou shalt buy The purchase of all lands, houses, or estates, was to be at a price proportionable to the greater or less number of years that remained from the time of the purchase to the next jubilee. Years of fruits Years in which, having sowed, they reaped the fruits of the land, in opposition to those years in which they were neither allowed to sow nor reap. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 25:16-17

Leviticus 25:16-17. The number of the years of fruits The meaning is, he selleth not the land, but only the fruits thereof, and that but for a certain time. Ye shall not oppress one another By seeking to turn each other out of the perpetual possession of his lands, as Ahab did Naboth; but thou shalt fear thy God The best proof men can give of fearing God is to abstain from evil, and to comply with his will. 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 25:15

According = in proportion. The estimation of value regulated by nearness of the jubilee. (So our estimation of value of earthly things governed by our sense of the nearness of Christ's coming.) 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

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:8-55

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:8-55

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:8-55

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:13-17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 25:15-16

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 25:15

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 25:16-17

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:1-34

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 25:15

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

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