Leviticus 25:37 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. ”

Leviticus 25:37 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lend him thy victuals for increase - i. e. supply him with food for thy own profit.
Leviticus 25:37 - 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...
Leviticus 25:37 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
Leviticus 25:37 - 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...
Leviticus 25:37 - 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...
Leviticus 25:37 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thou shalt not give him. — This is simply an emphatic repetition of the declaration in the foregoing verse, and favours the ancient distinction between the two terms.
Leviticus 25:37 - 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...
Leviticus 25:37 - 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...
Leviticus 25:37 - 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...
Leviticus 25:37 - 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...
Leviticus 25:37 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury ,.... Lend him money, expecting and insisting upon a large interest for it; this is to be understood of persons in poor and necessitous circumstances, of...
Leviticus 25:37 - 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...
Leviticus 25:37 - 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...
Leviticus 25:37 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Leviticus 25:37 - 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...
Leviticus 25:37 - 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...
Leviticus 25:37 - 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...
Leviticus 25:37 - 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...
Leviticus 25:37 - 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...
Leviticus 25:37 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Consideration for the Poor and for Slaves.

Leviticus 25:37 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Leviticus 25:37 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 25:37 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Leviticus 25:37 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 25:37 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 25:37 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Leviticus 25:37 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Leviticus 25:37 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Leviticus 25:37 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 25:37 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Leviticus 25:37 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Leviticus 25:37 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 25:37 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Leviticus 25:37 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Leviticus 25:37 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 25:37 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Leviticus 25:37 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 25:37 - The Biblical Illustrator

Leviticus 25:37 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Leviticus 25:37 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann