Leviticus 25:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The land shall not be sold for ever:c for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. ”

• Leviticus 25:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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...

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• Leviticus 25:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  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.

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• Leviticus 25:23 - 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 25:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  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 ;...

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• Leviticus 25:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Leviticus 25:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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 - the land is mine - As God in a miraculous manner gave...

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• Leviticus 25:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• Leviticus 25:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 rend...

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• Leviticus 25:23 - 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 25:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 hav...

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• Leviticus 25:23 - 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 25:23 - 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 25:23 - 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 25:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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 39:12-13 .

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• Leviticus 25:23 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  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 w...

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• Leviticus 25:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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...

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• Leviticus 25:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 .

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• Leviticus 25:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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,...

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• Leviticus 25:23 - 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 25:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.   24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the...

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• Leviticus 25:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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 redempt...

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• Leviticus 25:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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 25:23-28 ). Leviticus 25:23 “And the la...

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• Leviticus 25:23 - 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 25:23 - 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 25:23 - 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 25:23 - 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 25:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Year of Jubilee

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• Leviticus 25:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 29:15 ; 1 Kings 21:3 ; 1 Peter 2:11 ; 2 Chronicles 7:20 ; Deuteronomy 32:43 ; Ezekiel 48:14 ; Genesis 47:9 ; Hebrews 11:9-13 ; Hosea 9:3 ; Isaiah 8:8 ; Joel 2:18 ; Joel 3:2 ;...

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• Leviticus 25:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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...

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