Leviticus 25:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. ”

• Leviticus 25:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The land was to be divided by lot among the families of the Israelites when the possession of it was obtained. Numbers 26:52-56 ; Numbers 33:54 , etc. At the end of every seventh sabbatical cycle...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 sectio...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  holy. See note on Exodus 3:5 .

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. Ye shall eat the increase thereof ... All that the ground yielded spontaneously during tha...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 b...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. — Better, Ye shall eat its produce from the field. Because it is the jubile, which must be observed as a sacred institution, the spontaneous pr...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE SABBATIC YEAR AND THE JUBILEE Leviticus 25:1-55 THE system of annually recurring sabbatic times, as given in chapter 23, culminated in the sabbatic seventh month. But this remarkable system...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Sabbatical Year and the Jubilee Leviticus 25:1-17 As the weekly Sabbath was to give septennial rest for man and beast, so the sabbatical year, returning after six years of unbroken harvests...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 end...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The return of every man to his own possession and to his own family, beside the mercy of the thing itself; certainly, had this very important point in view; namely, to preserve in proper distinction...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE YEAR OF JUBILEE ‘And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For it is the jubilee, it shall be holy ,.... Men being restored to their liberty, possessions, and families, it must be matter of joy to them, and therefore this year was to be separated from all o...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For it [is] the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. Ver. 12. Out of the field. ] See Trapp on " Lev 25:6 "

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  It shall be holy So it was, because it was sequestered, in great part, from worldly employments, and dedicated to God, and to the exercise of holy joy and thankfulness; and because it was a type of...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Institution of the Jubilee; the Year of the Jubilee. B. C. 1490.       8 And thou shalt numb...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  It shall be holy unto you: so it was, because it was sequestered in great part from worldly employments, and dedicated to God, and to the exercise of holy joy and thankfulness; and because it was a...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Year of Yubile. The Year of Grand Release ( Leviticus 25:8-55 ). The year of grand release might well never have been put fully into practise throughout the whole of Israel, as it required ful...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  The Fear of Jubilee SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 25:1-7 .—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 t...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Leviticus 25:10-13 The Old Testament jubilee was meant to be a type of the entire New Testament dispensation in three points, imaging by its Sabbatic character the Gospel rest in Christ, by its un...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Leviticus 25:1-2 . And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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 seven...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The subject of the sacred seasons is taken up again in this chapter, after the parenthetical insertion of Leviticus 24:1-3 . There remain the septennial festive season and that of th...

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• Leviticus 25:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Year of Jubilee

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Leviticus 25:6 ; Leviticus 25:7

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• Leviticus 25:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  It shall be holy — So it was, because it was sequestered in great part from worldly employments and dedicated to God, and to the exercise of holy joy and thankfulness; and because it was a type of...

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