Levítico 25:12-33 NVIPT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 25:8-22

Here is, I. The general institution of the jubilee, Lev. 25:8-22 1. When it was to be observed: after seven sabbaths of years (Lev. 25:8), whether the forty-ninth or fiftieth is a great question among learned men: that it should be the seventh sabbatical year, that is, the forty-ninth (which by a very common form of speech is called the fiftieth), seems to me most probable, and is, I think, made pretty clear and the objections removed by that learned chronologer Calvisius; but this is not a... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 25:23-38

Here is, I. A law concerning the real estates of the Israelites in the land of Canaan, and the transferring of them. 1. No land should be sold for ever from the family to whose lot it fell in the division of the land. And the reason given is, The land is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me, Lev. 25:23. (1.) God having a particular propriety in this land, he would by this restraint keep them sensible of it. The possessions of good people, who, having given up themselves to God,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:12

For it is the jubilee, it shall be holy ,.... Men being restored to their liberty, possessions, and families, it must be matter of joy to them, and therefore this year was to be separated from all others, and devoted to the ends and uses before mentioned; and men were to live upon the spontaneous productions of the earth, without any tillage of land, or cultivation of vines, &c.; ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field ; they were not to reap corn, and gather grapes and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:13

In the year of this jubilee ,.... In the beginning of it, as Aben Ezra, though not on the first day of Tisri, but the tenth day, the day of atonement, when the trumpet was blown: ye shall return every man unto his possession ; which is repeated from Leviticus 25:10 ; the reason of which, the Jews say, is to include gifts, and which, according to them, are like sales, and returned in the year of "jubilee"; that is, if a man gave his estate in possession to another, he returned to it, in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:14

And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour ,.... Any estate or possession, house or land, at any time before the year of jubilee: or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand ; of movable goods, as the Targum of Jonathan interprets it; and so other Jewish writers F26 Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Bava Metziah, c. 4. sect. 9. restrain this to goods which are bought by hand, and delivered from hand to hand; and so they think that fields, and servants, which they say are like to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:15

According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour ,.... That is, reckoning how many years had past since the last jubilee, and how many there were to come to the next, and so give as many years' purchase as were yet to come: and according to the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee ; only care was to be taken, that as many years as were sabbatical ones, which were not years of fruit, should be deducted out of the account by the seller;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:16

According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof ,.... More was to be asked and required, and should be given for an estate, when, for instance, there were thirty years to the year of jubilee, than when there were but twenty: and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it ; if it wanted but five, or six, or ten years unto it, then, in proportion, less was to be insisted upon and given: for according to the number of the years of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:17

Ye shall not therefore oppress one another ,.... By over or underrating estates: but thou shalt fear thy God ; and the fear of God being before their eyes, and on their hearts, would preserve both buyer and seller from doing an ill thing, when it was in the power of either, through the necessity of the one, or the ignorance of the other, see Nehemiah 5:15 , for I am the Lord your God ; omniscient, and knows all that is done in the most private and artful manner; and omnipotent... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:18

Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them ,.... These and all others he enjoined; by which tenure, even obedience to all his commands, moral, ritual, and judicial, they were to hold the land of Canaan, and their possessions in it, which is intended in the next clause: and ye shall dwell in the land in safety ; without any fear of enemies, or of the neighbouring nations about them seizing upon them, and distressing them; and Jarchi observes, that it was for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:19

And the land shall yield her fruit ,.... That is, continually, and even in the seventh year, the sabbath of rest; for the land, though not manured, ploughed, and sowed, nor the vines, olives, and fig trees pruned, yet shall yield fruit as in other years, the Israelites observing the statutes and judgments of God: and ye shall eat your fill ; feel no want of provisions, but have fulness of everything as at other times, and never make a scanty meal, having sufficiency and plenty of all... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 25:8-22

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 25:23-38

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:19

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