Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Leviticus 25:23
The land shall not be sold (l) for ever: for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.
(l) It could not be sold for ever, but must return to the family in the Jubile.
The land shall not be sold (l) for ever: for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.
(l) It could not be sold for ever, but must return to the family in the Jubile.
Verse Leviticus 25:23. _THE LAND SHALL NOT BE SOLD FOR EVER - THE LAND IS_ _MINE_] As God in a miraculous manner gave them possession of this land, they were therefore to consider themselves merely a...
These verses express the principle on which the law of Jubilee, as it regards the land, was based. The land belonged to Yahweh, and it was He who allotted it among the families of Israel for their use...
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...
FOR EVER. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Whole), App-6, as we say "in perpetuity". absolutely or beyond recovery. THE LAND IS MINE. Compare Exodus 15:17; Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 14:25;...
A resumption of the Jubile regulation (after the interruption of Leviticus 25:18) providing that the land was not to be alienated beyond the next Jubile....
THE LAND SHALL NOT BE SOLD FOR EVER— That is, absolutely and irredeemably: the reason of which is subjoined, because God considered himself as the peculiar lord and proprietor of this land, and the pe...
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...
_THE LAND SHALL NOT BE SOLD FOR EVER: FOR THE LAND IS MINE; FOR YE ARE STRANGERS AND SOJOURNERS WITH ME._ The land shall not be sold for ever - or, 'be quite cut off,' as the margin better renders it...
25:23 ever; (d-9) Lit. 'unto extinction.' so ver. 30....
FOREVER] RV 'in perpetuity.'...
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...
THE LAND SHALL NOT BE SOLD FOR EVER. — That is, no plot of the land of Israel must be absolutely alienated from the original proprietor, who has been driven by poverty to sell his patrimony. We have h...
וְ הָ אָ֗רֶץ לֹ֤א תִמָּכֵר֙ לִ צְמִתֻ֔ת
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 THE LAND Leviticus 25:13 "In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall no...
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...
_For ever. Samaritan version, "absolutely." The only exception to this law is, when a person makes a vow to give some land to the Lord, and will not redeem it, chap xxvii. 20. In that case, God re-ent...
This is a most proper idea ever to be kept in view, The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof. Man is but a pilgrim and a traveler through it. Psalms 39:12....
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...
_SOJOURNERS WITH GOD_ ‘Ye are strangers and sojourners with Me.’ Leviticus 25:23 Explain the custom of restoring the land at the Jubilee to its original owner or his representative. We might wonder...
23._The land shall not be sold for ever_. Since the reason for this law was peculiar to the children of Abraham, its provisions can hardly be applied to other nations; for so equal a partition of the...
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...
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...
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me. Ver. 23. _The land is mine._] See Leviticus 25:2 ....
_For ever_ So as to be for ever alienated from the family of him that sells it. Or, absolutely and properly, so as to become the property of the buyer. Or, to the extermination or utter cutting off, n...
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 land shall not be sold forever, with a clear, absolute title to the purchaser; FOR THE LAND IS MINE; FOR YE ARE STRANGERS AND SOJOURNERS WITH ME, the Lord's lessees in holding any real estate. No...
THE YEAR OF JUBILEE...
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...
FOREVER: Or, to be quite cut off. _Heb._ for cutting off...
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...
FOR EVER, or, _absolutely and properly_, so as to become the propriety of the buyer; or _to the extermination or utter cutting off_, to wit, of the seller, from all hopes and possibility of redemption...
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 25:23 land H776 sold H4376 (H8735) permanently H6783 land H776 strangers H1616 sojourners H8453 The land -...
THE LAND BELONGS TO YAHWEH AND CANNOT BE PASSED ON PERMANENTLY. IT CAN EITHER BE REDEEMED EARLY OR WILL BE PASSED BACK AT THE YEAR OF YUBILE (LEVITICUS 25:23). Leviticus 25:23 “And the land shall no...
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...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 25:23 THE LAND is the Lord’s, and the Israelites are STRANGERS AND SOJOURNERS. They are tenants, essentially....
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 Chronicles 29:15; 1 Kings 21:3; 1 Peter 2:11; 2 Chronicles 7:20;...
For ever — So as to be for ever alienated from the family of him that sells it. Or, absolutely and properly, so as to become the property of the buyer: Or, to the extermination or utter cutting off, n...