The Feast of Jubilee
19 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
15 sections
- Began Upon the Day of Atonement
- Called The: Acceptable Year
- Called The: Year of Liberty
- Called The: Year of the Redeemed
- Enactments Respecting: Cessation of all Field Labour
- Enactments Respecting: Redemption of Sold Property
- Enactments Respecting: Release of Hebrew Servants
- Enactments Respecting: Restoration of all Inheritances
- Enactments Respecting: The Fruits of the Earth to be Common Property
- Held Every Fiftieth Year
- Houses in Walled Cities not Redeemed Within a Year, Exempted
- Illustrative of the Gospel
- Proclaimed by Trumpets
- Sale of Property Calculated From
- Value of Devoted Property Calculated From
Began Upon the Day of Atonement
- Leviticus 25:9 Then you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land.
Called The: Acceptable Year
- Isaiah 61:2 to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,
Called The: Year of Liberty
- Ezekiel 46:17 But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.
Called The: Year of the Redeemed
- Isaiah 63:4 For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.
Enactments Respecting: Cessation of all Field Labour
- Leviticus 25:11 The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.
Enactments Respecting: Redemption of Sold Property
- Leviticus 25:23–27 The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me. …
Enactments Respecting: Release of Hebrew Servants
- Leviticus 25:40–41 Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee. …
- Leviticus 25:54 Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.
Enactments Respecting: Restoration of all Inheritances
- Leviticus 25:10 So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.
- Leviticus 25:13 In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.
- Leviticus 25:28 But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.
- Leviticus 27:24 In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought — the original owner of the land.
Enactments Respecting: The Fruits of the Earth to be Common Property
- Leviticus 25:12 For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.
Held Every Fiftieth Year
- Leviticus 25:8 And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years — seven times seven years — so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.
- Leviticus 25:10 So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.
Houses in Walled Cities not Redeemed Within a Year, Exempted
- Leviticus 25:30 If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee.
Illustrative of the Gospel
- Isaiah 61:1–2 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners, …
- Luke 4:18–19 “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, …
Proclaimed by Trumpets
- Leviticus 25:9 Then you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land.
- Psalm 89:15 Blessed are those who know the joyful sound, who walk, O LORD, in the light of Your presence.
Sale of Property Calculated From
- Leviticus 25:15–16 You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining. …
Value of Devoted Property Calculated From
- Leviticus 27:14–23 Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it either as good or bad. The price will stand just as the priest values it. …
Related topics
The Feast of Jubilee was Specially HolyJubileeVows of a FieldEmancipation of all Jewish Servants at the Time of JubileeAgriculture or Farming was Promoted Amongst the Jews by The Rights of RedemptionRedemption of Persons or Property
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.