Acts 4:36; Acts 4:37; Leviticus 25:23
But the field of the (q) suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it [is] their perpetual possession. (q) Where the Levites kept their cattle.
The Year of Jubile. This law contains two large provisions, the return of estates to their original owners, and the liberation of Hebrew slaves, bo...
their. Some codices, with Targum of Onkelos, have "your".
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. Notwithstand...
The Sabbatical Year. The Year of Jubilee The matters treated in this chapter are closely related to those in Leviticus 23 , and their separation...
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold. — The Levitical cities had both suburbs or commons for their cattle, &c, and fiel...
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...
THE JUBILEE AND DWELLING HOUSES Leviticus 25:29-34 "And if a man sell a dwelling house in a wailed city, then he may redeem it within a whole y...
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...
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, to...
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...
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold ,.... The suburbs to the cities of the Levites reached two thousand cubits on every sid...
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it [is] their perpetual possession. Ver. 34. May not be sold. ] This law lasted...
The field of the suburbs (namely, of the cities of the Levites) may not be sold Not at all; partly, because it was of absolute necessity for them...
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...
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 yo...
Of the suburbs of the cities, See Poole on " Numbers 35:4 " . May not be sold; not sold at all, partly because it was of absolute necessity for th...
Houses In The Cities Of The Levites Are Redeemable At Any Time ( Leviticus 25:32-34 ). This special provision for Levites was because they did not...
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...
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 ha...
A Sabbath of rest unto the land. The sabbatic year and jubilee 1. I do not suppose that these sabbatic regulations referred severally to separa...
EXPOSITION The subject of the sacred seasons is taken up again in this chapter, after the parenthetical insertion of Leviticus 24:1-3 . There r...
Consideration for the Poor and for Slaves.
But the field of the suburbs of their cities, the open meadow-land surrounding their cities, used for pasturing their cattle arid flocks, may not be...
May not be sold — Not sold at all, partly, because it was of absolute necessity for them for the keeping of their cattle, and partly because these...
34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.