Leviticus 25:23

God's Word

“Land must never be sold permanently, because the land is mine. To me you are strangers without permanent homes.

Cross References

Genesis 23:4

“I’m a stranger with no permanent home. Let me have some of your property for a tomb so that I can bury my dead wife.”

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered Pharaoh, “The length of my stay on earth has been 130 years. The years of my life have been few and difficult, fewer than my ancestors’ years.”

1 Kings 21:3

Naboth told Ahab, “The Lord has forbidden me to give you what I inherited from my ancestors.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

To you we are all like our ancestors— foreigners without permanent homes. Our days are as fleeting as shadows on the ground. There’s no hope ⌞for them⌟.

2 Chronicles 7:20

then I will uproot Israel from the land I gave them. I will reject this temple that I declared holy for my name. I will make it an example and an object of ridicule for all the people of the world.

Psalm 119:19

I am a foreigner in this world. Do not hide your commandments from me.

Psalm 24:1

The earth and everything it contains are the Lord’s. The world and all who live in it are his.

Psalm 39:12

Listen to my prayer, O Lord. Open your ear to my cry for help. Do not be deaf to my tears, for I am a foreign resident with you, a stranger like all my ancestors.

Psalm 39:13

Look away from me so that I may smile again before I go away and am no more.

Psalm 85:1

You favored your land, O Lord. You restored the fortunes of Jacob.

Exodus 19:5

If you carefully obey me and are faithful to the terms of my promise, then out of all the nations you will be my own special possession, even though the whole world is mine.

Exodus 2:22

She gave birth to a son. Moses named him Gershom [Foreigner], because he said, “I was a foreigner living in another country.”

Isaiah 8:8

It will sweep through Judah. It will overflow and pass through; it will be neck-high. Its outspread wings will extend over your whole country, O Immanuel.

Ezekiel 48:14

They must not sell any of it or trade any of it. They must not let others have the best part of the land, because the land is the Lord’s and it is holy.

Hosea 9:3

The people of Ephraim won’t stay in the Lord’s land. They will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean  food in Assyria.

Joel 2:18

Then the Lord became concerned about his land, and he had pity on his people.

Joel 3:2

I will gather all the nations. I will bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. I will judge them there. They scattered the Israelites, the people who belong to me, among the nations. They divided my land.

Leviticus 25:10

Set apart the fiftieth year as holy, and proclaim liberty to everyone living in the land. This is your jubilee year. Every slave will be freed in order to return to his property and to his family.

Leviticus 25:24

People must always have the right to buy their property back.

Deuteronomy 32:43

Joyfully sing with the Lord’s people, you nations, because he will take revenge for the death of his servants. He will get even with his enemies and make peace for his people’s land.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, since you are foreigners and temporary residents ⌞in the world⌟, I’m encouraging you to keep away from the desires of your corrupt nature. These desires constantly attack you.