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Leviticus 25:29
And if a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it, for the purchase price, within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
And if a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it, for the purchase price, within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
Verse 29. _SELL A DWELLING HOUSE IN A WALLED CITY_] A very proper difference is put between houses in a _city_ and houses in the _country_. If a man sold his house in the _city_, he might redeem it a...
4. THE SABBATIC YEAR AND THE YEAR OF JUBILEE CHAPTER 25 _ 1. The Sabbatic year (Leviticus 25:1)_ 2. The jubilee (Leviticus 25:8) 3. The jubilee and the land (Leviticus 25:13) 4.
THE YEAR OF JUBILE. This law contains two large provisions, the return of estates to their original owners, and the liberation of Hebrew slaves, both in the fiftieth year. It also contains a section w...
WITHIN. WHOLE YEAR. within days, "days" being put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), for. whole year of days. App-6....
_Law in respect to the redemption of houses_(P) Houses in a walled town, if sold, and not redeemed within a year, were (with the exception of those belonging to the Levites) to be unaffected by the J...
IF A MAN SELL A DWELLING-HOUSE, &C.— Great difference is here made between houses _in walled cities,_ and in the country: the former, if sold, were either to be redeemed within the compass of _a year,...
THE LAW OF REDEMPTION 25:23-34 TEXT 25:23-34 23 And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of your poss...
_AND IF A MAN SELL A DWELLING HOUSE IN A WALLED CITY, THEN HE MAY REDEEM IT WITHIN A WHOLE YEAR AFTER IT IS SOLD; WITHIN A FULL YEAR MAY HE REDEEM IT._ If a man sell a dwelling house. All sales of ho...
THE SABBATICAL YEAR. THE YEAR OF JUBILEE The matters treated in this chapter are closely related to those in Leviticus 23, and their separation is another indication that we are dealing with a book ma...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
A DWELLING HOUSE IN A WALLED CITY. — IT is, however, quite different in the case of houses in walled cities. These are not the creation of God (see Leviticus 25:23), allotted by His command to the dif...
וְ אִ֗ישׁ כִּֽי ־יִמְכֹּ֤ר בֵּית ־מֹושַׁב֙ עִ
THE SABBATIC YEAR AND THE JUBILEE Leviticus 25:1 THE system of annually recurring sabbatic times, as given in chapter 23, culminated in the sabbatic seventh month. But this remarkable system of sabba...
THE JUBILEE AND DWELLING HOUSES Leviticus 25:29 "And if a man sell a dwelling house in a wailed city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; for a full year shall he have the rig...
CONSIDERATION FOR THE POOR Leviticus 25:18 It was good for the land to lie fallow for one year in seven; and it was a wise provision that it should not be sold in perpetuity. This enactment prevented...
The last section of the Book of Leviticus is occupied with setting forth laws concerning the outward signs in the land of the proof of possession, together with certain promises and warnings, all endi...
_City. These houses are of greater consequence, and therefore God dissuades his people from selling them; though if they think proper to do so, he holds out an encouragement to those who buy, that the...
All these precepts refer to one and the same thing. But their spiritual import is peculiarly striking. A brother so poor as not to be able to redeem his right, is a lively type of our poor nature. And...
We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...
29._And if a man sell a dwelling-house_. He here distinguishes houses from lands, providing that the power of redemption should not extend beyond a year; and also, that the purchase should hold good e...
Chapter 25. The land itself is held for Jehovah, as being His; it must enjoy God's rest; and moreover he who had lost his inheritance therein should find it again, according to the counsels of God, at...
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 th...
_A dwelling-house in a walled city_ Here the law makes a great difference between houses in walled cities and houses in the country. The former, if sold, were either to be redeemed within a year, or e...
1 The Sabbath of the seuenth yeere. 8 The Iubile in the fiftieth yeere. 14 Of oppression. 18 A blessing of obedience. 23 The redemption of land, 29 Of houses. 35 Compassion of the poore. 39 The...
THE SEVENTH YEAR SABBATH (VV. 1-7) Here was a wonderful provision for Israel every seven years. When they came into their land, they were to plant their land for six years and reap its fruits. But th...
23-34 If the land were not redeemed before the year of jubilee, it then returned to him that sold or mortgaged it. This was a figure of the free grace of God in Christ; by which, and not by any price...
No text from Poole on this verse....
The intelligent reader will discern a strong moral link between this and the preceding chapter. In Leviticus 24:1-23 we learn that the house of Israel is preserved for the land of Canaan. In chapter 2...
Leviticus 25:29 man H376 sells H4376 (H8799) house H4186 H1004 walled H2346 city H5892 redeem H1353 whole...
DWELLING HOUSES IN WALLED CITIES ARE EXEMPT FROM YUBILE (LEVITICUS 25:29). Leviticus 25:29 “And if a man sells a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it...
CONTENTS: Laws of the land. Sabbatic year and year of Jubilee. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The blessing of God upon our provision will make a little go a long way and satisfy even the poor w...
Leviticus 25:4. The _seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest._ While the Hebrews continued faithful under the Theocracy of heaven, they were the happiest people in the world. A sabbatical year was a y...
_A Sabbath of rest unto the land._ THE SABBATIC YEAR AND JUBILEE 1. I do not suppose that these sabbatic regulations referred severally to separate and distinct things. The seventh day, the seventh m...
The Fear of Jubilee SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 25:1.—Then shall the land keep a Sabbath unto the Lord. For a whole year the land ceased to be the property of the owner; he might not till the soil,...
EXPOSITION The subject of the sacred seasons is taken up again in this chapter, after the parenthetical insertion of Leviticus 24:1. There remain the septennial festive season and that of the half-ce...
Now as we get into chapter twenty-five, they were to give the land a Sabbath day's rest or Sabbath year. They were to plant the land for six years, the seventh year they were to let the land rest. Rea...
Genesis 24:55...