Text: Ezekiel 7:12
OT Text Referred to: Leviticus 25:25
Subject: sellers shall not return to what is theirs
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Contrast
Significance: Ezekiel 7:12 warns "let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn," nullifying the economic protections of Leviticus 25:25, which guarantees the right of redemption (גְּאֻלָּה, ge'ullah) for ancestral land. Under the Jubilee system, no sale was permanent because land would revert to its original family. Ezekiel declares this system irrelevant in the face of coming judgment—property transactions are meaningless when "wrath is upon the whole multitude." The contrast reveals that the approaching catastrophe will sweep away the very institutional safeguards God built into Israel's social order.
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Text: Leviticus 25:25
OT Text Referred to: Ezekiel 7:12
Subject: irreversible sales
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Contrast
Significance: Leviticus 25:25 provides the land-redemption mechanism: if an Israelite sells property due to poverty, the nearest kinsman (גֹּאֵל, go'el) may redeem it, and in any case the land reverts at Jubilee. Ezekiel 7:12 subverts this system in the context of imminent judgment: "Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude." The prophet declares that normal property transactions — including the Levitical Jubilee restoration — are irrelevant because divine judgment will obliterate the economic order entirely. Ezekiel 7:13 makes this explicit: "the seller shall not return to what he sold" — a direct negation of the Jubilee principle that land always returns. In judgment, the Levitical safety net is suspended.