Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Leviticus 25:39
To serve as a bond-servant Neither for the time, for ever, nor for the manner, with the hardest and vilest kinds of service, rigorously and severely exacted.
To serve as a bond-servant Neither for the time, for ever, nor for the manner, with the hardest and vilest kinds of service, rigorously and severely exacted.
The law here appears harmoniously to supplement the earlier one in Exodus 21:1. It was another check applied periodically to the tyranny of the rich. Compare Jeremiah 34:8....
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.
An extension of Exodus 21:2 *, Deuteronomy 15:12 *, from the master's point of view, substituting for slavery proper a mild kind of serfdom, but for the seventh year the fiftieth. To foreign slaves, h...
SOLD, as in 2 Kings 4:1....
_Prohibition of permanent servitude of one Israelite to another_(H and P mixed, the former probably preponderating) This case was to be subject to the operation of the law of Jubile, Moreover, the Is...
TREATMENT OF THE POOR 25:35-55 TEXT 25:35-55 35 And if thy brother be waxed poor, and his hand fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: _as_ a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with thee. 3...
_AND IF THY BROTHER THAT DWELLETH BY THEE BE WAXEN POOR, AND BE SOLD UNTO THEE; THOU SHALT NOT COMPEL HIM TO SERVE AS A BONDSERVANT:_ If thy brother ... be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee, х_ 'AACH...
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...
AND IF THY BROTHER THAT DWELLETH BY THEE BE WAXEN POOR. — Better, _And if thy brother be waxen poor by thee,_ that is, after supporting his tottering hand, as prescribed in Leviticus 25:35, and making...
וְ כִֽי ־יָמ֥וּךְ אָחִ֛יךָ עִמָּ֖ךְ וְ נִמְכּ
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 SLAVERY Leviticus 25:39 "And if thy brother be waxen poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bondservant: as a hired servant, and as a sojour...
FREEDOM IN THE YEAR OF JUBILEE Leviticus 25:35 If a man, through misfortune, were forced to sell himself into serfdom to meet his debts, he could not be legally retained after the trumpet had sounded...
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...
The doctrine of free grace, and of full redemption by JESUS, became so important to be shadowed forth, and kept in view through the whole of the law, that the HOLY GHOST was pleased to repeat the same...
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...
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,...
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 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 eit...
And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: Ver. 39. _Thou shalt not compel him._] To serve for ever, nor use...
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...
Consideration for the Poor and for Slaves....
And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond-servant, not treat him as a slave nor have him perform the labor of a slave,...
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...
COMPEL HIM TO SERVE AS A BONDSERVANT: _ Heb._ serve thyself with him with the service, etc....
39-55 A native Israelite, if sold for debt, or for a crime, was to serve but six years, and to go out the seventh. If he sold himself, through poverty, both his work and his usage must be such as wer...
Neither for the time, for ever, nor for the manner, with the hardest and vilest kinds of service, rigorously and severely exacted from him....
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 25:39 brethren H251 poor H4134 (H8799) sells H4376 (H8738) compel H5647 (H8799) serve H5656 slave...
WHAT THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL'S ATTITUDE MUST BE TOWARDS THEIR BROTHERS (LEVITICUS 25:35). “Brothers” here means fellow-Israelites who got into financial difficulties, who were to be treated with especi...
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...
_If thy brother. .. be sold unto thee._ SLAVERY I. Texts relating to slaves. 1. Called bondmen (Genesis 43:18; Genesis 44:9). 2. By birth (Genesis 14:14;...
_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...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 25:39 A poor Israelite may have sold himself to a fellow Israelite. His right to return to his house at the JUBILEE means he has sold just his labor, and not his status as...
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...
1 Kings 9:22; 2 Kings 4:1; Deuteronomy 15:12; Exodus 1:14; Exodus 21:2;
As a bond — man — Neither for the time, for ever, nor for the manner, with the hardest and vilest kinds of service, rigorously and severely exacted....