Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Leviticus 25:32
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites and the houses of the cities of their possession may the Levites redeem at any time. In their interest exceptions were always permitted.
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites and the houses of the cities of their possession may the Levites redeem at any time. In their interest exceptions were always permitted.
Verse 32. _THE CITIES OF THE LEVITES_] The law in this and the following verses was also a very wise one. A _Levite_ could not ultimately sell his house: if sold he could redeem it at any time tn the...
Rather, And concerning the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, etc. If one of the Levites redeems a house in the city, etc. The meaning appears to be, if a Levite rede...
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...
THE CITIES OF THE LEVITES. Compare the forty-eight cities, Numbers 35:1; Joshua 21:1....
_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...
NOTWITHSTANDING, THE CITIES OF THE LEVITES, &C.— The Levites' city-houses are exempted from the general law respecting houses in cities; the reason for which is given in the 33rd verse, _For the house...
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...
_NOTWITHSTANDING THE CITIES OF THE LEVITES, AND THE HOUSES OF THE CITIES OF THEIR POSSESSION, MAY THE LEVITES REDEEM AT ANY TIME._ Notwithstanding the cities ... The Levites, having no possessions bu...
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...
The Levites were granted forty-eight cities to dwell in, with suburbs for their cattle: see Numbers 35. 35-38. See on Exodus 22:25. 39-46. See on Exodus 21:1. Only foreigners could be bought as slav...
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...
NOTWITHSTANDING THE CITIES OF THE LEVITES, AND THE HOUSES. — Better, _And as to the cities of the Levites, the houses,_ that is, the houses which belong to the Levites, in the forty-eight cities given...
וְ עָרֵי֙ הַ לְוִיִּ֔ם בָּתֵּ֖י עָרֵ֣י אֲחֻזּ
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...
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...
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...
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...
32._Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites_. Another exception, that the Levites should recover the houses they had sold, either by the right of redemption, or gratuitously in the year of jubilee....
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...
NOTWITHSTANDING, THE CITIES OF THE LEVITES,.... The six cities of refuge, and forty two others; these and the houses in them are excepted from the above law, and only they; not such as they might purc...
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, [and] the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. Ver. 32. _May the Levites redeem at any time._] They were ever count...
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 25:32 cities H5892 Levites H3881 houses H1004 cities H5892 possession H272 Levites H3881 redeem H1353 time...
HOUSES IN THE CITIES OF THE LEVITES ARE REDEEMABLE AT ANY TIME (LEVITICUS 25:32). This special provision for Levites was because they did not have fields of their own. Their houses were their possess...
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...
Joshua 21:1; Numbers 35:2...