Lev 25:24-34, Psa 74:2, 78:54, Jer 32:7-8, Luk 21:28, Act 20:28, Eph 4:30 | TSK | STEP

Leviticus 25:24-34

redemption.

27,31,51-53; Ro 8:23; 1Co 1:30; Eph 1:7,14; 4:30

Ru 2:20; 3:2,9,12; 4:4-6; Jer 32:7,8; 2Co 8:9; Heb 2:13,14; Re 5:9

himself be able to redeem it. Heb. his hand hath attained,and found sufficiency.

5:7; *marg:

50-53

and in the.

he shall. See on

Isa 35:9,10; Jer 32:15; 1Co 15:52-54; 1Th 4:13-18; 1Pe 1:4,5 A very proper difference is here made between houses in a city and houses in the country. The former might be redeemed any time in the course of a year; but after that time could not be redeemed, or go out with the Jubilee: the latter might be redeemed at any time; and if not redeemed must go out with the jubilee. The reason in both cases is sufficiently evident; the house in the city might be built merely for the purposes of trade or traffic--the house in the country was builded on, or attached to, the inheritance which God had divided to the respective families. It was therefore necessary that the same law should apply to the house as to the inheritance; which necessity did not exist with regard to the house in the city. And, as the house in the city might be purchased for the purpose of trade, it would be very inconvenient for the purchaser, when his business was established, to be obliged to remove.

they may be redeemed. Heb. redemption belongeth unto it.

Ps 49:7,8

the cities.As the Levites had no inheritance in Israel, but only cities to dwell in; and consequently the houses in these cities were all they could call their own, therefore they could not be ultimately alienated.

Nu 35:2-8; Jos 21:1-45

a man purchase of the Levites. or, one of the Levites redeemthem. shall go.

for the houses.

Nu 18:20-24; De 18:1,2

23; Ac 4:36,37

Psalms 74:2

purchased.

Ex 15:16; De 9:29; Ac 20:28

rod. or, tribe. thine.

33:12; 106:40; 135:4; De 4:20; 32:9; Jer 10:16

redeemed.

Isa 51:11; 62:12; Tit 2:14; Re 5:9

this mount.

48:1,2; 78:68,69; 132:13,14

Psalms 78:54

And he.

Ex 15:13,17; Da 9:16-20; 11:45

his right.

44:3; Eph 1:14

Jeremiah 32:7-8

Behold.

1Ki 14:5; Mr 11:2-6; 14:13-16

Anathoth.

1:1; 11:21; Jos 21:18,19

for.

Le 25:23,34,49; Nu 35:2; Ru 4:4-9

court.

2; 33:1

Anathoth.

7; 1Ki 2:26; 1Ch 6:60

Then I.

1Sa 9:16,17; 10:3-7; 1Ki 22:25; Zec 11:11; Joh 4:53; Ac 10:17-28

that this.That it was by His appointment that I was to make this purchase; the whole of which was designed as a symbolical act, to shew the people, that although Judah and Jerusalem should be desolated, and the inhabitants carried captive to Babylon, yet there should be a restoration, when lands and possessions should be again enjoyed by their legal owners, in the same manner as formerly. During the famine that prevailed in the city, Hanameel probably wanted money to purchase bread, and his field would not be thought of much value in such circumstances, which may account for the stipulated sum being so very small; for at 2s. 6d. the shekel, it would only amount to about 2£. 2s. 6d.