Leviticus 25:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: ”

• Leviticus 25:20 - 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 25:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  What... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. (A lesson for us. God's "I will" the answer to our "What? "). behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.

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• Leviticus 25:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  20. And if ye shall say. Men will never be obedient to God’s precepts, unless their distrust of Him is corrected, and will be always ingenious in laying hold of pretexts for disobedience. Th...

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• Leviticus 25:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 142 THE SABBATICAL YEAR Leviticus 25:20-22 . And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: Then will I command my bles...

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• Leviticus 25:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: What shall we eat the seventh year? - A very natural question, which could only be laid...

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• Leviticus 25:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Leviticus 25:20 , &c. And if ye shall say, &c.— This increase which the Lord promises to give in the sixth year, was a continual proof to the Jews of his regard to them, of his immedia...

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• Leviticus 25:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Leviticus 25:20 - 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 25:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  What shall we eat the seventh year ? — The Lawgiver here anticipates an objection on the part of those who are called upon to abstain from cultivating the land in the sabbatical year, and who are o...

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• Leviticus 25:20 - 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 25:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Consideration for the Poor Leviticus 25:18-34 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...

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• Leviticus 25:20 - 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 25:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Reader, do not overlook in these verses how gracious the LORD is. Rather than GOD'S people shall be losers by their dependence upon him, he will even work a miracle to supply them; for causing the si...

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• Leviticus 25:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And ye shall say, what shall ye eat the seventh year ?.... Such as are of little faith, disbelieve the promise, and distrust the providence of God, and take thought for tomorrow, and indulge an anxi...

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• Leviticus 25:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: Ver. 20. And if ye shall say. ] A clear answer to a carnal objection. Usually God con...

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• Leviticus 25:20 - 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 25:20 - 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 25:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  A like objection, see Exodus 34:23,24 .

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• Leviticus 25:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Problem Of Having A Seventh Year Without Sowing and Planting ( Leviticus 25:20-21 ). Leviticus 25:20-21 “And if you shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow,...

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• Leviticus 25:20 - 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 25:20 - 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 25:20 - 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 25:20 - 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 25:20 - 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 25:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Year of Jubilee

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• Leviticus 25:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 25:9 ; 2 Kings 6:15-17 ; 2 Kings 7:2 ; Hebrews 13:5 ; Hebrews 13:6 ; Isaiah 1:2 ; Luke 12:29 ; Matthew 6:25-34 ; Matthew 8:26 ; Numbers 11:13 ; Numbers 11:4 ; Philippians 4:6...

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