Leviticus 25:23-35 NIV

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 25:23

The land shall not be sold for ever ,.... That is, the land of Israel; the meaning is, any part of it, for that the whole might be sold or disposed of at once is not to be supposed, but anyone part of it, which was the property of a single man, or belonged to a family; though it might be sold in case of necessity, yet not for ever, so as never to return to the owner, or his heirs; for if it was sold for ever it returned in the year of the jubilee: the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan render... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:24

And in all the land of your possession ,.... Which they should possess in the land of Canaan, whatever part of it any of them should enjoy: ye shall grant a redemption for the land ; that is, whenever any estate in it was sold through necessity, the buyer was obliged to grant a liberty to the seller to redeem it, when it was in his power to do it, or any or his relations, especially after two years; so Jarchi observes, he that sells his possession may redeem it after two years, either he... read more

John Gill

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

If thy brother be waxen poor ,.... Is brought very low, greatly reduced, and is in mean circumstances; hence Jarchi says, we learn, that no man may sell his field, unless his distress presses him and forces him to it; for, as Maimonides F3 Hilchot Shemittah Vejobel, c. 11. sect. 3. observes, a man might not sell his estate to put money into his purse, or to trade with, or to purchase goods, servants, and cattle, only food: and hath sold away some of his possession ; not all of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:26

And if the man have none to redeem it ,.... That is, none of kin that was able or willing to redeem it; otherwise no doubt there were persons in the land able to do it at any time, but none he was in connection with, or from whom he could expect such a favour: and himself be able to redeem it ; or if his hand has got, and he has found a sufficiency for his redemption, as the Targum of Jonathan; not that he has found anything that was lost, as Chaskuni glosses it, but by one providence or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:27

Then let him count the years of the sale thereof ,.... How many years had passed since it was sold, how many it had been in the hands of the purchaser, and how many were yet to come to the year of the jubilee, by which means the price of redemption might easily be settled; thus, for instance, if the years were alike and there was just half the time gone, then half of the price it was sold at was repaid to the purchaser; and if not alike, then in proportion to what had passed and were to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:28

But if he be not able to restore it to him ,.... The overplus, or give him what is in proportion to the time he has had it, and yet to come: then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that bought it until the year of the jubilee ; continue in his possession, and he shall enjoy all the benefit of it till that year comes: and in the jubilee it shall go out : out of his hands or possession; or "he shall go out" F7 ויצא "discedet emptor", Junius & Tremellius. ,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:29

And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city ,.... Which was so from the days of Joshua the son of Nun, as Jarchi: then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold : any time within the year he pleased, either he or any near of kin to him; and if they would, on the day it was sold, or any time after within the compass of the year, even on the day in which the year ended; in this such an house differed from fields, which could not be redeemed under two years; see Gill on ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:30

And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year ,.... Either by the seller or any man of kin to him: then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it, throughout his generation ; after twelve months were elapsed it was not redeemable by any, but to be held by the purchaser and his heirs for ever: it shall not go out in the jubilee ; from the purchaser or his heirs, to the seller or his heirs; for houses were not like lands, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:31

But the houses of the villages, which have no walls round about them ,.... As there were many in the days of Joshua, the Scripture speaks of: the Jews suppose that such are meant, even though they were afterwards walled: shall be counted as the fields of the country ; and subject to the same law as they: they may be redeemed ; at any time before the year of jubilee, and if not, then they shall go out in the jubilee ; to the original owners of them, freely, as Jarchi says, without... read more

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:24

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:31

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