Leviticus 27:17-24

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 27:14-25

Here is the law concerning real estates dedicated to the service of God by a singular vow. I. Suppose a man, in his zeal for the honour of God, should sanctify his house to God (Lev. 27:14), the house must be valued by the priest, and the money got by the sale of it was to be converted to the use of the sanctuary, which by degrees came to be greatly enriched with dedicated things, 1 Kgs. 15:15. But, if the owner be inclined to redeem it himself, he must not have it so cheap as another, but... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 27:17

If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee ,.... The very year, as Aben Ezra, while it is current, or when it is past, and he immediately sanctifies it for an holy use, and one comes to redeem it, as Jarchi says, as soon as ever it is devoted, and a priest has valued it, and there is a purchaser of it: according to thy estimation it shall stand ; what price soever the priest set upon it, that it was to go at, and he that had a mind to purchase it might have it for it, unless it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 27:18

But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee ,.... Some years after it, more or fewer, or it may be, when half way towards another jubilee, or nearer: then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubilee ; thus, for instance, if it only required an homer of barley to sow it, and the whole value of it from jubilee to jubilee was but fifty shekels of silver; then supposing it to be sanctified in the middle of the fifty... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 27:19

And if he that sanctified the field shall in any wise redeem it ,.... Is desirous of it, and determined upon it at any rate, repenting that he had parted with it in this manner: then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation to it : the Jerusalem Targum is, the fifth part of the shekels of silver: that is, if he has a mind to redeem it, and is resolved on it, as soon as he has sanctified it, then, besides the fifty shekels of silver it is rated at, and might be sold... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 27:20

And if he will not redeem the field ,.... He that sanctified it, does not care to give for it the settled price of the fifth part besides, but chooses it should be disposed of for the uses he devoted it to: or if he have sold the field to another man ; that is, either the original owner having bought it and sold it again, or rather the priest, the treasurer, as Jarchi, who had the disposal of it, for the uses and purposes for which it was devoted, when sold by him: it shall not be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 27:21

But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee ,.... Out of the hand of him that bought it: shall be holy unto the Lord, as a field devoted ; though it went out of the hand of the purchaser, it did not return to him that sanctified or devoted it, but was separated to sacred uses for the service of the Lord; for every devoted thing, whether of man, beast, or field, was most holy to the Lord, Leviticus 27:28 , the possession thereof shall be the priests' ; it did not return to the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 27:22

And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought ,.... With his own money, of some person in poverty and distress, who was obliged to sell it, and which, according to a former law, returned to the original proprietor in the year of jubilee: which is not of the fields of his possession ; which he has not by inheritance from his fathers. Jarchi observes, there is a difference between a field bought, and a field possessed; for a field bought is not divided to the priests... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 27:23

Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of jubilee ,.... The priest was to estimate the field of purchase sanctified, and set a price upon it according to the best of his judgment, and give it to the person that sanctified it, or whoever would redeem it; and this estimate was made, according to the number of years there were to the year of jubilee: and he shall give thine estimation in that day ; the price set upon the field by the priest... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 27:24

In the year of jubilee, the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought ,.... Not to him that sanctified it, whether he redeemed it or not; nor to him that bought it of the treasurer of the temple after it was sanctified; but to the original proprietor and owner of it, of whom he bought it that sanctified it, for so it follows: even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong ; which was a possession of his he had by inheritance from his fathers, and therefore,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 27:21

As a field devoted - It is חרם cherem , a thing so devoted to God as never more to be capable of being redeemed. See on Leviticus 27:29 ; (note). read more

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