PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Leviticus
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 211,561 words · 404 reading sections
Leviticus 23:17
Leviticus 23:17 Ver. 17. And ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals,.... Out of their habitations in the land of Canaan; and not out of those without the land, as Jarchi observes; and not out of all of them, as Ben Gersom remarks; though the Vulgate Latin version has it, out of "all"…
7,055 wordsSECTION 362Leviticus 25:1
Leviticus 25:1 INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 25 In this chapter the Israelites are directed, when come into the land of Canaan, to observe every seventh year as a sabbatical year, in which there was to be no tillage of the land, and yet there would be a sufficiency for man and beast, Le 25:1; and every fiftieth year as a…
404 wordsSECTION 363Leviticus 25:2
Leviticus 25:2 Ver. 2. Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,.... What follows, being what the whole body of the people would be under obligation to observe, and therefore must be delivered to them all, at least to the heads and elders of the people, and by them to the rest: when ye come into the land …
558 wordsSECTION 364Leviticus 25:3
Leviticus 25:3 Ver. 3. Six years thou shalt sow thy field,.... Under which is comprehended everything relating to agriculture, both before and after sowing, as dunging the land, ploughing and harrowing it, treading the corn, reaping and gathering it in; see Ex 23:10; and six years thou shall prune thy vineyard, and g…
92 wordsSECTION 365Leviticus 25:4
Leviticus 25:4 Ver. 4. But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land,.... From all tillage of it, from planting and cultivating any sort of trees in it; and even from digging pits, ditches; and caves, as say the Jewish writers {m}: and this was typical of that rest which believers enter into under t…
295 wordsSECTION 366Leviticus 25:5
Leviticus 25:5 Ver. 5. That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap,.... That which sprung up of itself from grains of corn, shed in the harvest of the preceding year, without any ploughing or sowing; he might reap it, but not as at other times, the whole of it, and gather it as his own prop…
194 wordsSECTION 367Leviticus 25:6
Leviticus 25:6 Ver. 6. And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you,...., That is, that which grew up of itself but of the land, or on trees, vines, olives, &c. undressed, should be the meat or food on which they should live that year: and this comprehends everything that is fit for food, and also for drink, and …
308 wordsSECTION 368Leviticus 25:7
Leviticus 25:7 Ver. 7. And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that [are] in thy land,.... The former signifies tame cattle, such as were kept at home, or in fields, or were used in service, and the latter the wild beasts of the field: shall all the increase thereof be meat; for the one, and for the other; Jarchi rema…
152 wordsSECTION 369Leviticus 25:8
Leviticus 25:8 Ver. 8. And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee,.... Or weeks of years; and there being seven days in a week, and a day being put for a year, seven weeks of years made forty nine years; the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, and Jarchi, interpret it seven "shemittas", or sabbatical years; …
146 wordsSECTION 370Leviticus 25:9
Leviticus 25:9 Ver. 9. Then shall thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound,.... At the end of forty nine years, or at the beginning of the fiftieth; or "the trumpet of a loud sound"; for here the word "jubilee" is not, which, according to some, was so called from the peculiar sound of the trumpet on this day, di…
444 wordsSECTION 371Leviticus 25:10
Leviticus 25:10 Ver. 10. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year,.... The year following the seven sabbaths of years, or forty nine years; and which they were to sanctify by separating it from all others, and devoting it to the uses it was to be put to, and the services done on it, and by abstaining from the tillage of …
738 wordsSECTION 372Leviticus 25:11
Leviticus 25:11 Ver. 11. A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you,.... Which, clearly shows, that not the forty ninth year was the year of jubilee, as many learned men have asserted, chiefly induced by this reason, because two years would come together in which were no sowing reaping; but that God, that could ca…
263 wordsSECTION 373Leviticus 25:12
Leviticus 25:12 Ver. 12. For it is the jubilee, it shall be holy,.... Men being restored to their liberty, possessions, and families, it must be matter of joy to them, and therefore this year was to be separated from all others, and devoted to the ends and uses before mentioned; and men were to live upon the spontaneo…
144 wordsSECTION 374Leviticus 25:13
Leviticus 25:13 Ver. 13. In the year of this jubilee,.... In the beginning of it, as Aben Ezra, though not on the first day of Tisri, but the tenth day, the day of atonement, when the trumpet was blown: ye shall return every man unto his possession; which is repeated from Le 25:10; the reason of which, the Jews say, …
180 wordsSECTION 375Leviticus 25:14
Leviticus 25:14 Ver. 14. And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour,.... Any estate or possession, house or land, at any time before the year of jubilee: or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour's hand; of movable goods, as the Targum of Jonathan interprets it; and so other Jewish writers {z} restrain this to goods which ar…
264 wordsSECTION 376Leviticus 25:15
Leviticus 25:15 Ver. 15. According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour,.... That is, reckoning how many years had past since the last jubilee, and how many there were to come to the next, and so give as many years' purchase as were yet to come:[and] according to the number of years…
8,866 wordsSECTION 377Leviticus 26:1
Leviticus 26:1 INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 26 In this chapter, after a repetition of some laws against idolatry, and concerning keeping sabbaths, and reverencing the sanctuary of God, Le 26:1; in order to encourage the Israelites to keep the various statutes and commandments in this book, and in the preceding, many pro…
525 wordsSECTION 378Leviticus 26:2
Leviticus 26:2 Ver. 2. Ye shall keep my sabbaths,.... The seventh day sabbaths, and the seventh year sabbaths; especially the former are meant, in which religious worship was given to the one true and living God, and therefore the observance of them is strictly enjoined; and hence this law follows closely upon the for…
172 wordsSECTION 379Leviticus 26:3
Leviticus 26:3 Ver. 3. If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them. Both moral, ceremonial, and judicial, which had been delivered unto them, and now completely recorded in this and the preceding book; for what follow in the two next are chiefly repetitions of what are contained in these.…
55 wordsSECTION 380Leviticus 26:4
Leviticus 26:4 Ver. 4. Then I will give you rain in due season,.... The former and latter rain, in the two seasons of the year in which rain usually fell, and the Scriptures frequently speak of; and when the land of Israel, which required rain, not being watered with a river, as Egypt, was blessed with it; the one was…
227 wordsSECTION 381Leviticus 26:5
Leviticus 26:5 Ver. 5. And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time,.... Signifying that there should be such plentiful harvests of barley and wheat, the first of which began in March, as would employ them in threshing them out unto the time of vintage, which may be…
245 wordsSECTION 382Leviticus 26:6
Leviticus 26:6 Ver. 6. And I will give peace in the land,.... Among yourselves, as Aben Ezra; that as safety from enemies is promised before, here it is assured they should be free from insurrections and from riots, broils, contentions, and civil wars among themselves: and ye shall lie down, and none shall make [you]…
276 wordsSECTION 383Leviticus 26:7
Leviticus 26:7 Ver. 7. And ye shall chase your enemies,.... Who being overcome in battle, and put to the flight, should be pursued: and they shall fall before you by the sword; not by the sword of one another, as the Midianites did, Jud 7:21, so Jarchi; but rather by the sword of the Israelites, for oftentimes multit…
68 wordsSECTION 384Leviticus 26:8
Leviticus 26:8 Ver. 8. And five of you shall chase an hundred,.... One man chase twenty; and an hundred of you put ten thousand to flight; which, had it been in proportion to the other number, should have been two thousand, as in De 32:30; where there is a proportion observed; and Abendana observes, there are some th…
180 wordsSECTION 385Leviticus 26:9
Leviticus 26:9 Ver. 9. For I will have respect unto you,.... Look at them with delight and pleasure, and with a careful eye on them, watch over them to do them good, and protect them from all evil; or turn himself to them from all others, having a particular regard for them and special care of them: and make you frui…
204 wordsSECTION 386Leviticus 26:10
Leviticus 26:10 Ver. 10. And ye shall eat old store,.... What is very old, corn of three years old, as Jarchi and Kimchi {m} interpret it; such plenty should they have that it would be so long consuming: and bring forth the old because of the new; out of their barns and granaries, to make room for the new, which they…
249 wordsSECTION 387Leviticus 26:11
Leviticus 26:11 Ver. 11. And I will set my tabernacle amongst you,.... Which God had directed them to make, and they had made, and also erected; but here he promises to fix and establish it among them, that so it might continue as a place for the public worship of him, and where he would take up his residence, and gra…
163 wordsSECTION 388Leviticus 26:12
Leviticus 26:12 Ver. 12. And I will walk among you,.... As they journeyed from place to place, he walked among them, in the tabernacle built for him, see 2Sa 7:6; it may be expressive of the familiarity and communion which the Lord grants to his people, in and through Christ: and will be your God; to provide for them…
171 wordsSECTION 389Leviticus 26:13
Leviticus 26:13 Ver. 13. I [am] the Lord your Lord, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt,.... Who, having done that, was able to fulfil the above promises; and which may be considered as an earnest and pledge of them, as well as be a motive to the Israelites, and an obligation upon them to obey the command…
285 wordsSECTION 390Leviticus 26:14
Leviticus 26:14 Ver. 14. But if ye will not hearken unto me,.... To his commandments, as the rule of their duty, and to his promises, as an encouragement to it, or to his prophets and ministers, explaining and enforcing his law, and exhorting to a cheerful obedience to it; so the Targum of Jonathan, "if ye will not he…
6,615 wordsSECTION 391Leviticus 26:1
Leviticus 26:1 INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 26 In this chapter, after a repetition of some laws against idolatry, and concerning keeping sabbaths, and reverencing the sanctuary of God, Le 26:1; in order to encourage the Israelites to keep the various statutes and commandments in this book, and in the preceding, many pro…
525 wordsSECTION 392Leviticus 26:2
Leviticus 26:2 Ver. 2. Ye shall keep my sabbaths,.... The seventh day sabbaths, and the seventh year sabbaths; especially the former are meant, in which religious worship was given to the one true and living God, and therefore the observance of them is strictly enjoined; and hence this law follows closely upon the for…
172 wordsSECTION 393Leviticus 26:3
Leviticus 26:3 Ver. 3. If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them. Both moral, ceremonial, and judicial, which had been delivered unto them, and now completely recorded in this and the preceding book; for what follow in the two next are chiefly repetitions of what are contained in these.…
55 wordsSECTION 394Leviticus 26:4
Leviticus 26:4 Ver. 4. Then I will give you rain in due season,.... The former and latter rain, in the two seasons of the year in which rain usually fell, and the Scriptures frequently speak of; and when the land of Israel, which required rain, not being watered with a river, as Egypt, was blessed with it; the one was…
227 wordsSECTION 395Leviticus 26:5
Leviticus 26:5 Ver. 5. And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time,.... Signifying that there should be such plentiful harvests of barley and wheat, the first of which began in March, as would employ them in threshing them out unto the time of vintage, which may be…
245 wordsSECTION 396Leviticus 26:6
Leviticus 26:6 Ver. 6. And I will give peace in the land,.... Among yourselves, as Aben Ezra; that as safety from enemies is promised before, here it is assured they should be free from insurrections and from riots, broils, contentions, and civil wars among themselves: and ye shall lie down, and none shall make [you]…
276 wordsSECTION 397Leviticus 26:7
Leviticus 26:7 Ver. 7. And ye shall chase your enemies,.... Who being overcome in battle, and put to the flight, should be pursued: and they shall fall before you by the sword; not by the sword of one another, as the Midianites did, Jud 7:21, so Jarchi; but rather by the sword of the Israelites, for oftentimes multit…
68 wordsSECTION 398Leviticus 26:8
Leviticus 26:8 Ver. 8. And five of you shall chase an hundred,.... One man chase twenty; and an hundred of you put ten thousand to flight; which, had it been in proportion to the other number, should have been two thousand, as in De 32:30; where there is a proportion observed; and Abendana observes, there are some th…
180 wordsSECTION 399Leviticus 26:9
Leviticus 26:9 Ver. 9. For I will have respect unto you,.... Look at them with delight and pleasure, and with a careful eye on them, watch over them to do them good, and protect them from all evil; or turn himself to them from all others, having a particular regard for them and special care of them: and make you frui…
204 wordsSECTION 400Leviticus 26:10
Leviticus 26:10 Ver. 10. And ye shall eat old store,.... What is very old, corn of three years old, as Jarchi and Kimchi {m} interpret it; such plenty should they have that it would be so long consuming: and bring forth the old because of the new; out of their barns and granaries, to make room for the new, which they…
249 wordsSECTION 401Leviticus 26:11
Leviticus 26:11 Ver. 11. And I will set my tabernacle amongst you,.... Which God had directed them to make, and they had made, and also erected; but here he promises to fix and establish it among them, that so it might continue as a place for the public worship of him, and where he would take up his residence, and gra…
163 wordsSECTION 402Leviticus 26:12
Leviticus 26:12 Ver. 12. And I will walk among you,.... As they journeyed from place to place, he walked among them, in the tabernacle built for him, see 2Sa 7:6; it may be expressive of the familiarity and communion which the Lord grants to his people, in and through Christ: and will be your God; to provide for them…
171 wordsSECTION 403Leviticus 26:13
Leviticus 26:13 Ver. 13. I [am] the Lord your Lord, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt,.... Who, having done that, was able to fulfil the above promises; and which may be considered as an earnest and pledge of them, as well as be a motive to the Israelites, and an obligation upon them to obey the command…
285 wordsSECTION 404Leviticus 26:14
Leviticus 26:14 Ver. 14. But if ye will not hearken unto me,.... To his commandments, as the rule of their duty, and to his promises, as an encouragement to it, or to his prophets and ministers, explaining and enforcing his law, and exhorting to a cheerful obedience to it; so the Targum of Jonathan, "if ye will not he…
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