Levítico 25:35-39 NTV

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 25:39-55

We have here the laws concerning servitude, designed to preserve the honour of the Jewish nation as a free people, and rescued by a divine power out of the house of bondage, into the glorious liberty of God's sons, his first-born. Now the law is, I. That a native Israelite should never be made a bondman for perpetuity. If he was sold for debt, or for a crime, by the house of judgment, he was to serve but six years, and to go out the seventh; this was appointed, Exod. 21:2. But if he sold... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:35

And if thy brother be waxen poor ,.... An Israelite, as Aben Ezra, be reduced to a low estate, through afflictions in body, or in family, or through losses in trade, or want of business, or through one providence or another: and fallen in decay with thee ; in his worldly substance: or "his hand wavers", or "fails" F16 ומטה ידו "et nutaverit manus ejus", Montanus, Vatablus, Fagius; "vacillabit", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. ; so that he cannot support himself and his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:36

Take thou no usury of him, or increase ,.... Not only give him somewhat for his present relief, but lend him money to put him in a way of business, to get his living for the future, without requiring any interest for it; See Gill on Exodus 22:25 , but fear thy God ; who has given this command, and expects to be obeyed; and who is good, and does good, and should be feared for his goodness' sake; and is omniscient, and knows what is secretly exacted, and will not suffer any exorbitance... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:37

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury ,.... Lend him money, expecting and insisting upon a large interest for it; this is to be understood of persons in poor and necessitous circumstances, of which the text only speaks; otherwise, if persons borrow money to gain by it, to carry on a greater trade, or to make purchase with it, it is but reasonable that the lender should have a share of profit arising from thence: nor lend him thy victuals for increase ; by which it should seem that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:38

I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt ,.... Where they had been strangers and sojourners, and therefore should be kind to such in necessitous circumstances, and relieve them, and especially their brethren; and where God had given them favour in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they had lent them jewels of gold and silver, and raiment, and therefore they should lend freely to persons in distress; and who had brought them out from thence, that they might take upon... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:39

And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor ,.... The above laws and instructions seem designed to prevent such extreme poverty as obliged to what follows, namely, a brother being sold either to an Israelite or to a stranger, by relieving his wants or lending him money; but when these were insufficient to support him, and keep him from sinking into the lowest state of distress and misery, then he was obliged to be sold, as follows: and be sold unto thee ; either by himself,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 25:36

Take thou no usury of him - Usury, at present, signifies unlawful interest for money. Properly, it means the reward or compensation given for the use of a thing, but is principally spoken of money. For the definition of the original term, See the note on Exodus 22:25 . read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 25:39

Verse 39 39.And if thy brother. He now proceeds further, i e. , that one who has bought his brother should treat him with humanity, and not otherwise than a hired servant. We have seen, indeed, just above, that the labor of a slave is estimated at twice as much, because the humanity of his master will never go so far as to indulge or spare his slave as if he were a hireling. It is not, therefore, without reason that God puts a restraint upon that rule, which experience shows to have been often... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:1-55

The sabbatical year was instituted not for any supposed physical benefit accruing from it to the land, but, first, as serving for a link between the sabbath and the jubilee by means of the sacred number seven—the sabbatical year being the seventh year, and the jubilee being the year following the seven-times-seventh year; and secondly, and chiefly, as enforcing the lesson of the weekly sabbath in a manner that could not be overlooked, and symbolically, teaching the universal application of... read more

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 25:39-55

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:36

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:37

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:38

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:39

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 25:36

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 25:39

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 25:1-55

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