Leviticus 25:36 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. ”

• Leviticus 25:36 - 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 25:36 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  usury (Hebrew. nashak), is. charge on money. increase (Hebrew. tarbith or marbith) is. charge on goods. See notes on Leviticus 25:7 with Leviticus 26:4 . These were the definitions...

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• Leviticus 25:36 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. Take thou no usury of him - Usury, at present, signifies unlawful interest for money. Properly, it means...

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• Leviticus 25:36 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Take thou no usury of him, &c.— This is explained by the next verse. See Exodus 22:25 . That thy brother may live with thee, signifies that he may prosper and thrive, &c. for, to li...

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• Leviticus 25:36 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. If thy brother be waxen...

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• Leviticus 25:36 - 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 25:36 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Take thou no usury of him, or increase. — The first thing to be done to the impoverished Israelite is to supply him with the means to recover himself without any interest. The authorities during th...

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• Leviticus 25:36 - 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 25:36 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Freedom in the Year of Jubilee Leviticus 25:35-55 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 ha...

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• Leviticus 25:36 - 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 25:36 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  All these precepts refer to one and the same thing. But their spiritual import is peculiarly striking. A brother so poor as not to be able to redeem his right, is a lively type of our poor nature. An...

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• Leviticus 25:36 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Take thou no usury of him, or increase ,.... Not only give him somewhat for his present relief, but lend him money to put him in a way of business, to get his living for the future, without requirin...

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• Leviticus 25:36 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. Ver. 36. Take thou no usury. ] God dispenseth with no usury, but condemns both Neshec the biting, a...

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• Leviticus 25:36 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Take no usury of him That is, of thy brother, whether he be Israelite or proselyte. Or increase All kinds of usury are in this case forbidden, whether of money, or of victuals, or of any thing th...

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• Leviticus 25:36 - 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 25:36 - 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 25:36 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  i.e. Of thy brother, whether he be Israelite or proselyte. Increase: this some conceive relates to the fruits of the earth, food, &c., as usury doth to money. But here may rather seem to be t...

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• Leviticus 25:36 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  What The People of Israel's Attitude Must Be Towards Their Brothers ( Leviticus 25:35-43 ). “Brothers” here means fellow-Israelites who got into financial difficulties, who were to be treated wit...

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• Leviticus 25:36 - 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 25:36 - Scofield Reference Notes

  fear ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 19:9 ).

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• Leviticus 25:36 - 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 25:36 - 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 25:36 - 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 25:36 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Consideration for the Poor and for Slaves.

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• Leviticus 25:36 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 23:19 ; Deuteronomy 23:20 ; Exodus 22:25 ; Ezekiel 18:13 ; Ezekiel 18:17 ; Ezekiel 18:8 ; Ezekiel 22:12 ; Leviticus 25:17 ; Nehemiah 5:15 ; Nehemiah 5:7-10 ; Nehemiah 5:9 ; Pr...

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• Leviticus 25:36 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Of him — That is, of thy brother, whether he be Israelite, or proselyte. Or increase — All kinds of usury are in this case forbidden, whether of money, or of victuals, or of any thing that is commo...

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