Holly Bible - KJV with Concise Commentaries by Z Selam - HTML preview
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(1.) Dwelling houses in the cities of the Levites might be redeemed at any time, and, if not redeemed, should revert in the year of jubilee (Le 25:32,33), because the Levites had no other possessions than cities and their suburbs, and God would show that the Levites were his peculiar care; and it was for the interest of the public that they should not be impoverished, or wormed out of their inheritances.
(2.) The fields adjoining to their cities (Nu 35:4,5) might not be sold at any time, for they belonged, not to particular Levites, but to the city of the Levites, as a corporation, who could not alienate without a wrong to their tribe; therefore, if any of those fields were sold, the bargain was void, Le 25:34. Even the Egyptians took care to preserve the land of the priests, Ge 47:22. And there is no less reason for the taking of the maintenance of the gospel ministry under the special protection of Christian governments.
26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able
to redeem it;
27 then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the
overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold
shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year
of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
29 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may
redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the
house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.
31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them
shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.